Re: mailgw woes

Hi All:

Sorry, I haven't been following this in detail.

 In message <[email protected]>,
Ralf Schlatterbeck writes:
>On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:31:04PM +0000, Tom Ekberg wrote:
>> I've gotten back to this problem and have been working hard to try to
>> get the auto-user-register to work. I did as you suggested and
>> cut/pasted the code (import sys...) which ran OK. Then I cut/pasted
>> from schema.py and your print line:
>> 
>> >>> db.security.addPermissionToRole('Anonymous', 'Register', 'user')
>> >>> print (db.security.hasPermission('Register', anonid, 'user'))
>> 0
>> 
>> It's almost like it ignores "Register".
>
>> What I'm going to do is copy mailgw.py and change the test for the
>> 'Register' by commenting that part of the if test out. This
>[commenting out the check for Register makes it work]
>
>
>Hmm, I have no idea what is happening there. And I don't think we have
>changed that particular part of the permission infrastructure recently.
>in
>That said: I do not use user registration and possibly many others don't
>either. But I think we *do* have registration turned on in roundup's own
>tracker.
>
>Has anyone else an idea what is going on there?

What does:

 roundup_admin -i tracker_dir security

show? You should see:

  Role "Anonymous":

     ...
     User is allowed to register new user (Register for "user" only)
     ...
 
and there should not be any other Register roles.

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