In Drupal 4.7, when I received the admin email asking me to approve a new registration, I would go to the admin/user edit page and select the radio button for Active and then save the record; in Drupal 5.1, I did this for the first registrants, and then received emails saying they could get in, but were denied access after they log in! When I checked their Account info, I found that none of the roles had been selected. To make it work the same as in Drupal 4.x (and before), I must select Active and set their role to Authenticated User ... which seems silly since everyone will be at least 'authenticated'.

  1. Is there a new setting in 5.x to make "Authenticated User" the default selection for new user account edits?

  2. Why would having no role at all give a visitor less access than someone who was Anonymous?

This is on an upgraded site, the sources were completely removed and replaced with the 5.1 sources from the CVS, then the update.php run against the Drupal 4.7 database.

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teledyn’s picture

teledyn commented

Related to #2 above, the User List page specifically states

The user receives the combined permissions of the authenticated user role, and all roles selected here.

yet Authenticated User still appears in the list of checkboxes. Could this indicate an upgrade glitch that failed to promote the old authenticated level to the new implied status?

philmcdonnell’s picture

philmcdonnell commented
Assigned: Unassigned » philmcdonnell
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

This is not the module that control the info you are requesting. Please see the module description about what this module does. I am closing this thread as it does not pertain to the User Maintenance Module.