[Tickets #3144] NEW: Clicking "permissions" can make the datasource unavailable

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=3144
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 Ticket             | 3144
 Created By         | roel at gloudemans.info
 Summary            | Clicking "permissions" can make the datasource unavailable
 Queue              | Gollem
 Version            | HEAD
 State              | Unconfirmed
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Type               | Bug
 Owners             | 
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roel at gloudemans.info (2005-12-15 00:30) wrote:

Boundary conditions:
1) You are administrator
2) You have no permissions set on the data source (permissions are set on
Gollem, but there are no child permissions for the data source)

If you now click the permissions button from the top-menu, a child node in
the permission tree for the data source you were working in is created. The
default rights is to disallow everything. If you do not set the rights to
allow your users cannot access the datasource.

Yesterday, one of my fellow administrators was trying to set permissions on
a file. Because the permissions button in the top bar attracts the attention
much more than the "chmod" entry from the actions menu the clicked the
permissions button. The he saw that he was not where he wanted to be and het
clicked the "back" browser button. The effect of this was that all users
were thrown out of the data source.

There are a few solutions possible:
1) Don't show the permissions button
2) Rename it
3) Create a separate gollem administration page
4) Make sure that the child permission node is not automatically created
when the permissions button is clicked