[horde] User not authorized for mail - SOLVED

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Dennis Terebecki <dtex23 at gmail.com>:

>> Hello all,
>>
>> Using Horde 5.2.10, freshly installed,
>>
>> I have an issue where two users are not being displayed the "Mail" link in
> their top menu bar.  I've >followed the recommended troubleshooting
> procedures in the FAQ at https://wiki.horde.org/faq/>admin/troubleshoot
> <https://wiki.horde.org/faq/admin/troubleshoot> and cannot seem to make
> headway.  Also, any options associated with Mail: >do not show up in the
> Add Content portal blocks.
>>
>> Interestingly, I noticed that I have (fully functional, read, send,
> receive) mail displayed to me (the >administrator), so I promoted one of
> the other users to administrator, and mail started working for >them, with
> the ability to add the portal block, view, send and receive mail.  As soon
> as the user >was removed from the administrator group, the message "User
> xxx is not authorized for Mail >(Host: x.x.x.x)".
>>
>> How to fix this so that a non administrator user is authorized to use
> Imp/Mail?
>>
>> DJ
>> dtex23 at gmail.com <dtex23 at gmail.com>
>
>
> AHA!!!
>
> From searching, it looked like two things just about everyone from
> Google-space was saying that permissions were an issue ... and everyone
> posting back and forth was looking at *NIX filesystem permissions.  There
> are even some helpful souls pointing towards the storage backend and
> cookies (see https://wiki.horde.org/faq/admin/troubleshoot)
>
> Mine was solved in an easier fashion...
>
> (menu) Administration -> Configuration link
> (left side) Permissions
> (tree) All Permissions
> (tree) Mail (imp)
> (tree) Edit
> All Authenticated Users tab
> Check all boxes (show, read, edit, delete)
> click Update, and viola!
>
> According to the wiki page https://wiki.horde.org/Doc/Permissions   , "If
> there are no permissions set on an application, or on Horde itself, the
> default is to allow authenticated users and disallow guests (unless the app
> is disabled or set to admin-only in the registry)".  This does not seem to
> be the case, as users were explicitly denied imp login.  Also strange is
> the fact the imp is the only application that had permissions by default.
>
> Am I the only one to see this?  Is this something that needs to go in the
> wiki or install docs?  Two minutes of reading here is a hell of a lot
> easier than two days of headbanging pain. searching for something
> documentation suggests should be automatic.
>
> DJ

There are no default permissions set. If you had (empty) permissions  
created for IMP, you, or anybody else, must have explicitly created  
them.

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
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