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Warning Admin .htgroupmembers getting fouled up with 1.9B5.4 

Keywords: admin 1.9B5.4 .htgroupaccess
Forum: HyperNews Bugs
Date: 1996, Feb 18
From: Martin Huntley <mhuntley>

Downloaded 1.5B5.4 this afternoon and got into trouble.

I think there may be a bug in setup.pl.

I'm experimenting with three separate HN areas, accessible to different groups. After installing 1.9B5.4 I went to reconfigure each area (primarily to change the header for each).

In each case, any change in configuration (not necessarily in the assignment of administrators) resulted in changes in the .htgroupmembers file in the Admin dir for the area which resulted in my longer being able to get Admin access to the area.

Specifically, before the config change there was a single Admin/.htgroupmembers with the text:

Admin1: martin mhuntley

After submitting the config changes, there were three files as follows:

.htgroupmembers   with text  ": martin"
.htgroupmembers-old  with text ": mhuntley"
.htgroupmembers-older  with text "Admin1: martin mhuntley"

I had to rename the -older file to get functional again.

I've now reverted to 1.9B5.2 and the problem has gone away.

Martin

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