Forum OpenACS Q&A: access denied to site-wide administrator

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1: access denied to site-wide administrator
Posted by Matthew Terenzio on 11/27/00 04:34 PM
while logged in as site-wide administraor, I still get a message that
I do not have access to certain pages including event admin. My guess
was that I needed to create a new group, and put myself in it, but I'm
not sure. On the same note, How do I edit a current user's roles.( For
instance, make user a site-wide administrator)
      TIA
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2: Response to access denied to site-wide administrator (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 11/27/00 05:16 PM
Second question is easiest - you make a user a site-wide admin by adding them to the "system administrators" user group.

As far as the first question, administration in the ACS has been an evolutionary thing, with various modules taking different approaches based on when they were written (usually for a specific client of Ars Digita).  So there's a woeful lack of consistency.  The doc pages for each module should talk about module administration.

Cleaning this up and presenting a uniform administration style is one of the goals of ACS 4.0.

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3: Response to access denied to site-wide administrator (response to 1)
Posted by Avni Khatri on 11/28/00 03:22 AM
As a site wide admin:
1. go to /admin/ug/
2. click on the Administration group type
3. click on the Events Administration user group (it should already exist)
4. add yourself as to the group

This should give you access to /event/admin/
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4: Response to access denied to site-wide administrator (response to 1)
Posted by Hubert Tsang on 12/01/00 07:22 AM
I can't get to /admin/ug as system/changeme. The webserver responds with error 404, file not found. I can see that the directory is there, when I look at the file system.
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5: Response to access denied to site-wide administrator (response to 1)
Posted by Avni Khatri on 12/01/00 10:49 PM
Weird. What's your url? Does the error log say anything?
Need more details to help you. What have you tried so far?
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6: Response to access denied to site-wide administrator (response to 1)
Posted by Hubert Tsang on 12/01/00 11:40 PM
I got it working. It was trying to redirect to https and I was running https at 8443, instead of the normal port.

Thanks.