Unwanted permissions generated

Okay, but any idea why taxonomy access is generating unwanted permissions (checks in boxes). It's odd. Here's the example:

I have a role called "administration." I can "remove" all the checks in the boxes just fine. I can also add permissions by checking boxes, but with limitations. If I give the "administration" role permissions to "view," "update," "delete," and "create" for the category, "administration," taxonomy_access automatically generates the same permission for another term in the same vocabularly. It also fills-in the checkboxes for another, seemingly random term. The only way I can be rid of these auto-filled checkboxes is to not select the desired permissions. Argg! It's simply not doing what it's supposed to. I'm not sure if this is because of the module or because of some corruption in my database? Would erasing my roles and recreating them get rid of the problem? Or is this a bug in the CVS release of this module? Thanks again for looking into this.

Your explanation of the default box makes sense...

Pyro, can you give me an e-mail so I can send you .pdf files of my tables? I've printed the pdf's from phpMyAdmin so you can see what's going on with the database-- including node_access, term_access, and term_access_default.

I have cleaned out my node_access table, deleted the term_access tables, uninstalled the taxonomy_access module and started over. I still get the same result (even after simplifying my roles to one role per user-- I had multiple roles assigned to each user)-- still permissions are getting added when I don't select them. I reinstalled the old taxonomy_access (4.50-- non CVS) and everything seems to work fine, but without the added features...

I hope I can help you do some bug hunting!

You are exactly right... here is the term_access table in .pdf format...

The term_access_default table....

The node_access table... that should do it, if I understand the tables involved in this module. Thank you for looking into this! I hope you solve the mystery.

Ah, yes, after looking through this table, I suspect the problems are somewhere in here: if some the numbers seem slightly misaligned, I changed some of the names to keep them generic, but I changed nothing else in the report of this table. I hope it helps

Any luck? Is there still a way to access the version of Taxonomy Access with check-boxes at the top of each vocabularly? They worked in much the same way as the drop downs and there was the "create" field for catagory permissions. I think this version worked with my setup. I would go back to the 4.50 version, but it only has "update," "delete," "create," and "view." Just checking... thanks for your help. Once I can get it working right, this module will do wonders for the site I am building!

I tried reverting back to 4.50 (the most recent version that download from the module page). I deleted and reinstalled the tax_access table, etc. The module does give me a "duplicate" error when I first enable it, but it seems to work fine after that... but "view," "update," and "delete" are the only options for my category permissions. There are also only checkboxes for individual terms in this version, not for the larger vocabularies.

Hope that helps explain my situation.

Bingo...almost everything is behaving the way I would expect it to behave now. Good work! The only thing that behaves a bit differently is the default box. It seems that these boxes are filled in automatically for every vocabulary, no matter what I do. Perhaps this is by design, and I still don't fully understand the "default's" function yet.