[JS1-185] [FIX] Removing 'user' role causes data integrity problems

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4b4-dev / CVS
• Component/s: Database
• Environment: Operating System: Linux; Platform: PC
• Bugzilla Id: 15684
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: iyahman
• Created: 28/Dec/02 02:12
• Updated: 16/Feb/11 21:04
• Resolved: 24/Mar/04 14:31

Description

This appears to be a data-integrity problem where deleting a role
has not been properly propagated or protected against: Seeking to
refactor the role of "user" to "member" and "guest", I removed the
role of "user" and now jetspeed refuses to assign any roles to
any users returning instead errors like

Failed update role+permission:
org.apache.jetspeed.services.security.GroupException: Unjoin group
'Jetspeed' to user 'anon' failed: : Unknown role 'user'

Adding the 'user' role back in corrects the problem. My guess is that
you have to manually ensure that the role is no longer used before you
remove it, but this should be detected when someone tries to delete
a role.