Admin role seems broken

[Brian Blakeley <we...@labourunions.com>]

Hi Everyone,

I am having an interesting problem with my admin login.

I can log in but get the not authorized error message for almost all of
the tabs and sub-tabs.

I can not even post to my blog.

I used rollerpw to grant myself admin rights. I added my usename to
adminusers in the rollerconfig database. But no luck.

Roller 1.0 Fedora MySQL JAVA 1.4 Tomcat 5.0.30

Also, I can post using the finch client from my cell phone through
XML-RPC - interestingly enough.

Any thoughts?


Brian

www.cheblogs.com

Re: Admin role seems broken

[Brian Blakeley <we...@labourunions.com>]

Hi Anin,

Once again you have saved the day!

Here's what happened. I have been scrambling to get CheBlogs.com up to
the task of severing over 50,000 visitors this month (thanks to the good
folks at the various drug suppliers from  dot olo dot cc) and have been
making a lot of configuration adjustments.

At one point I wanted to look at the users who now have blogs on the
site. So I went to the admin user page and expected to see a drop down
list. Of course I did not see one so I thought something was wrong. (the
problem with good software and silly users is that the users forget how
the software works since it just works!).

So then I ended up in MySQL and noticed that I had no Admin role defined
for myself, but  I did have two editor roles. So I deleted the second
editor role and used rollerpw to grant myself an admin role.

Bit of a mistake as you so helpfully pointed below.

Fix it up now with my humble thanks!!!


Brian



On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 10:10, Anil Gangolli wrote:
> Hmm. Everything was working fine and suddenly it's not?  Can you elaborate on any recent changes that might be correlated?
> 
> Check that you have rows in the userrole table for the given username and both rolenames ("editor" and "admin").
> The rollerconfig adminusers value was already out of use by release 1.0.
> 
> Check that the security-constraint sections of the web.xml have not changed from  the original distribution.
> 
> Do you have any unusual Realm setup for Roller or Tomcat (i.e. different from the usual installation guide)?  
> 
> --a.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brian Blakeley" <we...@labourunions.com>
> To: <ro...@incubator.apache.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:50 PM
> Subject: Admin role seems broken
> 
> 
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > I am having an interesting problem with my admin login.
> > 
> > I can log in but get the not authorized error message for almost all of
> > the tabs and sub-tabs.
> > 
> > I can not even post to my blog.
> > 
> > I used rollerpw to grant myself admin rights. I added my usename to
> > adminusers in the rollerconfig database. But no luck.
> > 
> > Roller 1.0 Fedora MySQL JAVA 1.4 Tomcat 5.0.30
> > 
> > Also, I can post using the finch client from my cell phone through
> > XML-RPC - interestingly enough.
> > 
> > Any thoughts?
> > 
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > www.cheblogs.com

Re: Admin role seems broken

[Anil Gangolli <an...@busybuddha.org>]

Hmm. Everything was working fine and suddenly it's not?  Can you elaborate on any recent changes that might be correlated?

Check that you have rows in the userrole table for the given username and both rolenames ("editor" and "admin").
The rollerconfig adminusers value was already out of use by release 1.0.

Check that the security-constraint sections of the web.xml have not changed from  the original distribution.

Do you have any unusual Realm setup for Roller or Tomcat (i.e. different from the usual installation guide)?  

--a.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Blakeley" <we...@labourunions.com>
To: <ro...@incubator.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 11:50 PM
Subject: Admin role seems broken


> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am having an interesting problem with my admin login.
> 
> I can log in but get the not authorized error message for almost all of
> the tabs and sub-tabs.
> 
> I can not even post to my blog.
> 
> I used rollerpw to grant myself admin rights. I added my usename to
> adminusers in the rollerconfig database. But no luck.
> 
> Roller 1.0 Fedora MySQL JAVA 1.4 Tomcat 5.0.30
> 
> Also, I can post using the finch client from my cell phone through
> XML-RPC - interestingly enough.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Brian
> 
> www.cheblogs.com