I am getting an "Access denied" page for anonymous users trying to submit stories (or other node types). The strange thing is that the error is not drupal themed, and contains no html content what so ever (not even a doctype, header, or body). it's just a simple text file with "Access denied".

You can view the error by going to http://www.climateimc.org and trying to submit anonymously. The anonymous user can get to the /node/add page fine, and then to the /node/add/story page fine, and can write the story, but when they click "submit", or "preview", they get sent this strange Access denied page.

Anonymous users have the correct permissions for submitting pages. I've tried removing them and re-instating them. I've tried the usero solutions suggested in http://drupal.org/node/20397#comment-111175 - none of those were missing, and it didn't change anything.

It's probably related to a module I've installed but I have no idea which one, A full list, with install states is attached. The system is Debian Etch (Stable), Apache 2, and I'm running drupal 5.10 (this bug has been around since at least 5.6 for me).

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naught101 commented
Priority: Normal » Critical

it's also happening for users submitting comments anonymously, this site is supposed to be almost completely open.

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naught101 commented
Project: Drupal core » Akismet
Version: 5.x-dev » 5.x-1.4
Component: node system » User interface

Not sure if this is a bug, or just akismet being over-sensitive, but I disabled spam checking, and now everything works.

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naught101 commented
Priority: Critical » Normal
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naught101 commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

I think I eventually worked out that this was by design. Akismet died for me though, so now I use the http://drupal.org/project/spam module...