I activated the module, set inheritance, but nothing happened (permissions were not inherited from the checked role). Thanks in advance for help.
(P.S. I tried to use this module in combination with Node Access).

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jmroth commented

I don't get it either.
I had a "dev" and a "editor" role.
"dev" on my system has only one more permission than "editor".

Now, role inheritance comes into play.
I install the module and I make "dev" inherit permissions from "editor".
Now I take one permission that "editor" AND "dev" both had away from "dev".

Result: A user with role "dev" can no longer use that feature :-(
I see that role_inheritance_user() correctly adds the role to the account object using debug output.
But that seems not to be enough??

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decibel.places commented

same here

doesn't transfer the permissions

possibly also breaks the permissions causing a timeout on the permissions admin page (I had to delete my additional roles in phpmyadmin and start over)

nice looking interface, though, too bad it doesn't work

I found a slightly more cumbersome solution with Duplicate Role, which adds the role and copies the permissions one-by-one http://drupal.org/project/duplicate_role

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my-family commented

Does not work even almost 1 year after original issue posted :-(

#2: Duplicate role module works fine (thanks), except for this issue on some servers: http://drupal.org/node/637190

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jvieille commented

Is this module maintained?

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frankiedesign commented

I just had a brief look over the code. It seems to me, that this module does not grant any permissions itself. It lets you select 'parents' for your roles, and if you assign a role to someone VIA THE BUILT-IN FORM the module hooks in and also selects the patent roles. That is really not much functionality, since I can tick the wanted "parent roles" myself with minimum effort. Just for information...

(So where's my Problem? The thing is, that if I let Drupal question which roles a user does have, it will _always_ tell me the parent roles, for every child role also. Meaning: it can't be distinguished if a user has only the child role or both, afterwards. So I - for my purpose - have to filter them out... some "ifs"... sigh...)

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Drupal 6 core has also been EOL since February 24th 2016. The Drupal 6 version is no longer supported and has not been since 2014. Thus I am closing this issue.

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