i'm not sure how to best track down why this is happening so any help would be appreciated:
Name Member Permissions Modify
Administrator (?) 5 1
Note the "1" instead of "(all)"
Do you have any idea when that appeared? What might have changed around then?
i wish i knew but it's not impacting anything.
i assume a permission got in there - the one i thought, i removed but no luck.
just a mystery right now
I know that i should check the database but don't know where the permissions are stored - i guess i should put in the effort and review the source and look into the DB but if i can take a shortcut, then all the better.
If it's too time consuming then i will work it out myself - which mod stuck something where it shouldn't have ?!
so all good if you guys are too busy.
have you recently installed a mod? i wonder if one or more mods set permissions incorrectly and caused this.
not really but i'm always messing around with mods.
it may even be a remnant of an earlier version of one also.
what tables hold the permissions in the DB ? can you divulge that ? i will poke around tonight anyway.
i love an innocuous mystery ::)
smf_permissions hold the membergroup specific permissions.
now i feel silly ! sorry to waste your time there.
but lots of thanks ! will let you know what i find.
aha ! it's from the "OS & Browser Detection" mod that i uninstalled but probably didn't delete the DB data.
problem solved.
thanks for your help, i was, as usual, looking for a complexity that wasn't there