Re: mailgw woes

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:34:58PM +0000, Tom Ekberg wrote:
> 
> The problem I'm having is that when a user, that has no corresponding
> tracker user, sends an email, the issue gets created by user
> Anonymous. I tracked the problem down to mailgw.py in the
> get_author_id function in this code fragment:
> 
>         create = 1
>         anonid = self.db.user.lookup('anonymous')
>         if not (self.db.security.hasPermission('Register', anonid, 'user')
>                 and self.db.security.hasPermission('Email Access', anonid)):
>             create = 0
> 
> The "Register' part of the 'if' statement returns 0, while the 'Email
> Access' part returns 1. This causes create to be set to 0, failing to
> create a tracker user using the sender's email. I have these lines in
> my schema.py for this tracker:
> 
> db.security.addPermissionToRole('Anonymous', 'Email Access')
> db.security.addPermissionToRole('Anonymous', 'Register', 'user')
> 
> Which should cause both the 'Register' and "Email Address' parts of
> the if in get_author_id to return 1, leaving create being set to 1.

Looks good, I can't spot any obvious errors.
You can debug this as follows:

In the tracker directory create a script:

import sys
import os
from roundup import instance
dir = os.getcwd ()
tracker = instance.open (dir)
db = tracker.open ('anonymous')
anonid = db.user.lookup ('anonymous')
print (db.security.hasPermission('Register', anonid, 'user'))
print (db.security.hasPermission('Email Access', anonid))

You can directly cut&paste this into a python interpreter started in the
tracker directory and experiment with the permissions, also with
db.security.addPermissionToRole to check if the permissions are there
when added.

At least in my trackers I don't have a Register permission defined, so
the addPermissionToRole above fails in my trackers with a
ValueError: No permission "Register" defined
but I *think* this would work in the classic template.

Ralf
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