2.6.15 - Group Administration missing or hidden.

[rick.rune]

An overzealous user removed all groups, and now the Group Administration page is unavailable, and now unable to create new groups via http://server/admin/index.php?action=group

Is there a way to manually enter in groups or, from a backup, to import only the user/group/permission settings without affecting newly updated content?

Thanks,

Rick

Useful info:
phpMyFAQ Version phpMyFAQ 2.6.15
Server Software Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)
PHP Version PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9
Register Globals off
Safe Mode off
Open Basedir off
Database Server Mysql
Database Client Version 5.1.41
Database Server Version 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.10
Webserver Interface APACHE2HANDLER

[jeffw]

Access the Mysql tables, and edit

faqgroup and faqgroup_rights

faqgroup contains the group name and id, and faqgroup_rights the enablements for that group.

If you have a backup all the info you need should be in there, eg the id associated with the group name etc

And PS, dont forget to remove that users rights to stop them doing it again

[rick.rune]

Access the Mysql tables, and edit

faqgroup and faqgroup_rights

faqgroup contains the group name and id, and faqgroup_rights the enablements for that group.

If you have a backup all the info you need should be in there, eg the id associated with the group name etc

Restored those two tables to back before the Group Administration page disappeared. The group administration page is still unavailable.

And PS, dont forget to remove that users rights to stop them doing it again

Way ahead of you.

Any further suggestions for getting Group Administration back?

[Thorsten]

Hi,

do you get any specific errors?

bye
Thorsten

[rick.rune]

No errors, it's just empty.

Please see attached images. To get to the 'groups' page I manually keyed in 'action=group' into the URL.

[Thorsten]

Hi,

you have to enable the "medium" permission level in the configuration and then everything will work.

bye
Thorsten

[rick.rune]

Hi Thorsten,

That was it. You're a genius.

Bug closed.

Thank you!
-Rick

[Thorsten]

Hi,

You're a genius.

well.... I wrote that stuff.

bye
Thorsten