37358 - Don't have enough permissions to view a bug??

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect, P3)

Description

[Blake Ross]

Not quite sure if this is a bug so much as something I've just never 
encountered before. 

Upon trying to access bug 34674, which I've been to before, I get the following:

Permission denied.
Sorry; you do not have the permissions necessary to see bug 34674. 

I have the can confirm a bug and can change all aspects of a bug report 
permission bits set on my account, though I'm not sure why that would matter in 
this situation.  What permissions are needed simply to view a bug report, and 
what has become so secret about this bug report that I'm not even allowed to 
look at?

Can someone shed some light here please?

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Strange, I thought I saw a bug related to this one earlier this week saying 
something like "restricted bugs make up a huge percent of the bugs each day".  
Now I can't find that bug.

Anyway, do elig's comments on bug 24221 shed any light on this?

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Ahh, that was bug 36770.

Comment 3

[leger]

Hmm...Blake, I checked you permissions and you have full access to all bug 
EXCEPT "Only people in Netscape Confidential can view this bug" type of bugs.

So, you should be ok.  And a few weeks ago, I set up Bugscape, and internal 
instance of Bugzilla.  So, eventually, any bugs that are proprietary to the 
netscape commercial product (i.e. Netscape 6) can go in that internal database, 
and not clutter up Bugzilla.  Also, eventually we may be able to take out the 
switch that flips a bug over to not being able to be seen by mozilla 
contributors.  I am sure this is irritating for you.  This was the case for bug 
34674.  This was a bug related to AOL Instant Messenging in Netscape 6, thus 
proprietary, thus hidden from public view.

AIM and other proprietary bugs are indeed now entered into Bugscape at first 
notation, not Bugzilla.  So, this will help permission denial irritation to view 
a bug in the future.  But please be patient as we move those types of bugs over 
to Bugscape.  AND please be aware that we may still need to keep the "deny 
public view" feature in Bugzilla.  I would think that we would still get bugs 
that may be entered there accidentally, cause possible damage to someones 
product proprietary issues, and need this feature.

So, I would like to mark this bug INVALID.  You do have the permission, you just 
 hit a hidden bug. ;-)

Comment 4

[Blake Ross]

Yep.  Thanks, Jan.  I forgot to close this one up awhile ago when sairuh told 
me 34674 was about AIM.  Since I'd been to the bug before, I naturally assumed 
it was public and not nscp_confidential, so I couldn't figure out why I 
couldn't access it anymore (I had forgotten what it was about).  Thanks again 
Jan, verified.

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

moving to Bugzilla product
reassign to default owner/qa for INVALID/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/DUPLICATE

Comment 6

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

moving to Bugzilla product
reassign to default owner/qa for INVALID/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/DUPLICATE