Hi,

If 'Show this node profile during user registration' for a content type, then I, as a user with 'administer users' permission cannot create a new user account at 'user/user/create' without having 'administer nodes' privileges.

Without 'administer nodes' permissions, I get an error 'You can't create more nodes of this type for this user.' Doing a dump in node_validate, it looks like node->name gets set to the new username I'm creating, but node->uid contains my UID. I already have a profile node, so another one can't be created.

This same thing occurs if 'Show this node profile during user registration' is *not* ticked and I create a user, then go to its profile, click on the 'edit' tab and go to the corresponding user category (user/4191/edit/user_profile). I cannot create the node because node->uid gets set to my UID rather than that of the user I am editing.

Maybe this isn't a problem for most people, but I would like certain site administrators to be able to create users (and their profiles) without having 'administer nodes' permission. Has someone found a way to get this to work? The fact that node->name is set correctly but node->uid is not set to the corresponding UID looks like a bug to me, but maybe there is something I don't understand.

Thanks in advance for any help,
-Ian

Comments

miiimooo’s picture

miiimooo
Location Europe
commented

I can confirm this behaviour. I agree that it should be sufficient for a user to have create user_profile content and edit user_profile content permissions and not require the administer nodes permission. Is there a workaround?

fago’s picture

fago
Primary language German
Location Vienna
commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

this is the way drupal works - nothing nodeprofile can do about this.