[dev] Re: [ansel] XPPublish working?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting "Heath S. Hendrickson" <heath at outerspaceconsultants.com>:
>
>> I found my problem with the Fatal Error and XP Publishing.  It seems
>> that I had managed to create a permission (via
>> Administration->Permissions) that was stopping XP Publish from working.
>>
>> You have to have at least Show checked under "Guest Permissions" for it
>> to work.  All the rest can be blank and it still works.  I even tried
>> setting Show under "Default Permissions" and it didn't work.
>
> This is actually a pretty sticky problem and it goes well beyond 
> Ansel, so I'm
> cc:ing the dev list.
>
> Basically, now that we check permissions in Registry::pushApp(), is a 
> permission
> is set that doesn't allow guests access to an app, system level 
> scripts - like
> the Klutz fetching script, the Whups reminder script, and Ansel's XPPublish
> that handles login by itself - will all fail.
>
> We used to get around that by setting a $noauth or $self_contained_auth
> variable. Maybe we need to add a second parameter to pushApp() that tells it
> not to check permissions?

That makes sense. Btw, how about completely removing the allow_guest
setting?

Jan.

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