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Site invite failures -- insufficient permissions to access preferences

eseldura — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:27:50 GMT

Inviting people to join the site fails and the log indicates that the current user does not have enough permissions to access the preferences of the person being invited. The problem does not happen for users that are members of the ALFRESCO_ADMINISTRATORS group.Sample log entry below:16:30:22,396 E

Re: Site invite failures -- insufficient permissions to access preferences

eswbitto — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:16:08 GMT

Is your User1 a Manager of the Site?

Re: Site invite failures -- insufficient permissions to access preferences

kbonnet — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:52:31 GMT

We are suffering from the same problem. Any suggestions?

Koen

Re: Site invite failures -- insufficient permissions to access preferences

eswbitto — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:59:53 GMT

You are going to need to provide more information about your setup. Are you using any type of authentication subsystem? ldap?…etc? Or are you creating users within Alfresco?

Is it a basic vanilla install? Have you modified any files to change the default security settings within Alfresco?….etc.

Re: Site invite failures -- insufficient permissions to access preferences

kbonnet — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:36:40 GMT

My setup is fairly vanilla regarding authentication. I have tracked down the error to the function "getLocaleForUser" in MailActionExecuter.java. Another factor seems to be that it only happens for username that are emailaddresses. I guess we trigger something in the multi-tenancy part?

Still investigating

Re: Site invite failures -- insufficient permissions to access preferences

loftux — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:17:44 GMT

This issue is found here https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-20897
There is a solution there, you will have to compile your own version of Alfresco.

Re: Site invite failures -- insufficient permissions to access preferences

eseldura — Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:14:10 GMT

Yes, we've confirmed that this is a bug. We've also confirmed that this affects workflow notifications. When an adhoc task is created and assigned to a user whose login id is the same as the email address, the email notification does not get generated but the task is created for the assignee.