Menu item doesn't display AND path isn't accessible for the admin user
thekevinday - April 8, 2009 - 13:53
| Project: | Taxonomy Delegate |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
This had confused me for a while and led me to believe that I was experiencing the following problems:
http://drupal.org/node/256432
http://drupal.org/node/291665
Apparently, I am used to having access to everything as the primary admin.
If the admin itself is not in the roles that are allowed access via role_delegation to any particular vocabulary, then the admin user cannot access them.
This is can be misleading as most people (or so I assume) assume that the admin user can see/do everything on the system.
Perhaps you could either make a comment about this in the documentation or add a check for admin user in the permissions handler?
#1
Not sure if this should be regarded as a bug. I think it is generally preferable if modules require role access even for uid1, when such a feature is in place.
Personally, I never use admin1 for other than system update(.php) tasks, in particular to be sure at all times that I quickly spot whenever the role-based security settings does not work well.
If working with uid1, you may be fooled to believe that all is well, and potentially waste time if finding out "too late" that something is wrong with the security.