Nodebb: Accidentally deleted guests group

[eshohet]

• NodeBB version: Latest
• NodeBB git hash: 9d0802edd36f531fdd3803972ccfcc2d4522d27f
  
• Database type: redis
• Database version: not relevant
  
• Exact steps to cause this issue:

Start a new forum
Rename "guests" to "guests2"
Delete guests2

Guests now can't see any forums posts

[aStonedPenguin]

This is why groups shouldn't be hard coded.

[julianlam]

:thinking: well, that's a new one.

[pitaj]

Can you add the group back by creating guests3 and renaming it to guests?

[eshohet]

Yes, but that won't solve the problem of guests not being able to see any
posts.

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Can you add the group back by creating guests3 and renaming it to guests?

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[pitaj]

Have you checked the privileges to see if the group has those privileges?

[eshohet]

I'm not exactly sure how to do that, I was able to resolve this issue using the spider migration script (with some modifications). Is there a way to see what groups have what permissions in the ACP?

[pitaj]

Yeah you go to Manage > Privileges I think.

[eshohet]

Never saw that menu item before! There's only chat, upload files, and upload images.

How does one enable reading of categories & topics?

[julianlam]

There is a dropdown menu at the top right where you can adjust privileges for each category :smile:

[pitaj]

There's a drop-down at the top right I think, where you can select a category for which you select privileges.

[eshohet]

Damn, never would have guessed that. Awesome, thank all of you for the help!

[pitaj]

Gonna reopen this to track the issue that you can edit the group in the first place.

[barisusakli]

guests group shouldn't be visible in the UI, where did you delete it?

[eshohet]

Hmm, in Manage > Groups.

I don't see guests here anymore. I must have created the group myself first, then renamed it, then deleted it, then tried to remake it and it failed.

My apologies for not remembering the initial flow I went through to encounter this bug.

[barisusakli]

@eshohet thanks, that narrows it down.