[horde] Cannot add any permission

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz at uni-konstanz.de>:

> Hello,
>
> I had written:
>> I am testing Horde: 3.1.2 + Imp H3 (4.1.2) + Turba H3 (2.1.3).
>>
>> I have logged in as a Horde administrator, and invoked the Permissions
>> menu. There is only one entry, viz. "All Permissions".
>> If I click on the little key icon next to it, I get the error message:
>> "Invalid parent permission.", and nothing happens.
>
> Now I have tried to debug the horde/admin/prefs/addchild.php file.
> After
>> require_once HORDE_BASE . '/lib/Horde/Variables.php';
>> $vars = &Variables::getDefaultVariables();
>> $perm_id = $vars->get('perm_id');
>> $permission = &$perms->getPermissionById($perm_id);
> the $perm_id variable contains "-1",
> and $permission is an object.
>
> As I do not know, how these permissions work, I cannot assess
> these findings.
> - Is "-1" the correct perm-id for the root of the permissions tree?
> - What sort of object is &$perms->getPermissionById($perm_id)
>   supposed to yield?
>
> horde/admin/prefs/addchild.php proceeds to assess that outcome:
> it evaluates
>> if (is_a($permission, 'PEAR_Error'))
> -- and bang!
>
> There is no pertinent entry in php-error.log, apache-error.log,
> test-webmail-error.log, test-webmail-ssl-error.log, nor in
> test-webmail-horde.log.
>
> So what could I do next to mend my installation?

Use Horde 3.1.3 where this has been fixed.

Jan.

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