231145 - Instructions for adding additional administrative users have incorrect hex value for groupset

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Documentation, defect)

Description

[Matt McHenry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Section 5.2.1 of the Bugzilla Guide says to execute the following SQL command to
add an additional administrative user:

update profiles set groupset=0x7ffffffffffffff where login_name = "(user's login
name)";

The value for groupset has one too few f's; the correct SQL is:

update profiles set groupset=0x7fffffffffffffff where login_name = "(user's
login name)";

(that's 0x7 followed by 15 -- not 14 -- f's)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. update existing user with command from guide
2. edit that user and disable some permission


Actual Results:  
The system allows the permission to be disabled.

Expected Results:  
The system should report the error message "Cannot change permissions of superuser."

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

taking

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

BUGZILLA-2_16-BRANCH:

Checking in administration.xml;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/docs/xml/administration.xml,v  <-- 
administration.xml
new revision: 1.13.2.10; previous revision: 1.13.2.9
done

Thanks for catching this!

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Just for reference, this does not affect the trunk/2.17 docs because the method
of telling who's an admin is different (and tweakable from the UI) in 2.17.