permissions

...it's probably because there is already content in the text area that is set to something to which the user no longer has access.

It seems really freaky when you have access to one text format, and it says:

"This field has been disabled because you do not have sufficient permissions to edit."

So you add another text format, and now you have access to the field... and the format it must have been saying you didn't have permissions for before, what???

You can see the permissions a particular user has, in the 'machine-readable' form Django uses, quite easily through the Django shell. For a user with the username 'david', for example:

When developing a site it is well known you need to log in as different users to properly test functionality, or you will always be surprised by incorrectly-configured permissions.

However, it should be much easier to test out working as a given user role by anyone with these privileges.

Created a feature that would be easily shareable among Drupal sites except for a big failing of Drupal to allow for module-provided sensible default permissions.

a good D7 query for determining if a user has a specific permission
via agentrickard

what's wrong with user_access('permission', $account) ?

it requires a user_load_multiple() (a user_load to get the roles on the account, turning in the ID is not enough)

which is wasteful if you can do it at the query level

you could see what queries that function runs

it seems like that is a somewhat complicated thing to work out
since users can belong to many roles

how many users is this for at a time? I'd just use user_load() + user_access().

Stefan told me not to recommend scp -r ~/code/example username@host.example.com:/var/www/.

Asked in IRC #drupal

has anyone made a Drupal 7 module for seeing the system names for all permissions? (now the Permissions UI uses human-friendly names and descriptions)

No response.

Update: This has been incorporated into Xray.

drupal allow user to administer only permissions they have
drupal give lesser permissions
permission delegate
drupal grant permissions you have

Agaric and the world needs a

Drupal role permission to set permissions for any permission it has

http://gotdrupal.com/videos/manage-drupal-permissions-more-easily

Closest thing we have right now is this trio, which does both more... and less.