FS#1956 "for admins only" error in ACL manager, media manager won't show upload

2010-05-14 robmacl

I recently upgraded to 2009-12-25c "Lemming" from some 2008 version, and also did a new linux install (FC12). I'm having two new problems, one is that though I am an admin, the ACL manager spits out "for admins only" in the main display box or the tree view. In a possibly related problem, the media manager also won't show the upload button (even though user should be able to upload.) I can change settings in the other admin areas such as configuration, pagemove, etc.

I seem to recall that right after the upgrade the ACL manager wasn't doing this, so it may be some configuration change I made caused this to start happening. The main things I can think of that I did were getting URL rewriting working, turning on useslash, adding plugins, changing from sidebar template to arctic.

(I am "ram" in users.auth.php)
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# users.auth.php
# <?php exit()?>
# Don't modify the lines above
#
# Userfile
#
# Format:
#
# user:MD5password:Real Name:email:groups,comma,seperated

ram:1b10f8a49435a33af9a7d40752d3f8c4:Robert MacLachlan:ram@ri.cmu.edu:admin,user
drh:$1$1e2e3d0b$vvgp0GDjSY.8WDFRFI72L.:Dan Heyman:dan5905@hotmail.com:user
haughki:$1$5f68ab70$wi8R2J1AyLqrdkPBVdaFS0:Hawkeye Parker:hawkeye.parker@autodesk.com:user
jam:$1$f393ebd6$aYytqkKrx.QlV2iZ4P5Qk1:James MacLachlan:james_maclachlan@yahoo.com:user
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# acl.auth.php
# <?php exit()?>
# Don't modify the lines above
#
# Access Control Lists
#
# Editing this file by hand shouldn't be necessary. Use the ACL
# Manager interface instead.
#
# If your auth backend allows special char like spaces in groups
# or user names you need to urlencode them (only chars <128, leave
# UTF-8 multibyte chars as is)
#
# none 0
# read 1
# edit 2
# create 4
# upload 8
# delete 16

* @ALL 1
* @user 8
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2010-06-26 andi

Shouldn't happen. If you get to the admin screen, you should be able to run the ACL manager as well. Can you check if everything works on a fresh install on the same server?

2010-06-27 robmacl

I worked around this somehow, but I'm not clear on what I did that fixed the problem. It seems that it was upgrade related, and I did some things such as deleting the cache that have been recommended for upgrade problems, and it went away. It would be nice to have an automatic upgrade procedure, though fixing pagemove is a higher priority.

2014-05-09 Klap-in

https://github.com/splitbrain/dokuwiki/issues/688
Confirmations that a cache clean was fixing the problem.

FS#1956 "for admins only" error in ACL manager, media manager won't show upload

ACL & Authentication