category permissions are not working.( NOT A BUG )

[rcsmith]

running pp 5.21

i setup a new category called "New Section" and checked the following for view images:

Paid User
Super Admins

All others are unchecked. I check the group ID's in phpmysqladmin in VBulletin and Photopost and they correlate. I even removed all groups from PP database and did a refresh to get the groups back in and that worked but still the authentication does not work.

For some reason my normal users can view the cats and images.

[rcsmith]

found the problem. VB has some sloppy code. i check the membergroupids in the vbulletin DB User Table and there was a group ID that was an old one, that doesn't even show up in the usergroup manager on both vbulletin and photopost. Of course that wasn't in the noshowgroup so 30k people with that number in it had access.

I think you should redo the restrictions so that rather than using a noshowgroups ID, it should do a showonly groups ID.

That way guys like me running 5 year old vbulletin don't have these little problems The reason this happend was because I used the User promotion in Vbulletin to upgrade certain users after certain years to a new group. I'll have to submit that bug report to them.

[Chuck S]

Welll looks to me like on delete of a special usergroup that it doesnt clean up members memgroupid from the user table. At any rate that as stated is a vb issue.

In vbulletin membergroups are stored in the user table

$mgroups = $results['usergroupid'];
if ( $results['membergroupids'] != "" ) $mgroups .= ",{$results['membergroupids']}";