I have an implementation of a Drupal site where i created a "Power User" role. This role has permission to view user profiles, but when i tried to access a profile, some profiles are not accessible and some are. What do can be the cause of this? I walked through the code and was not able to determine what the issue is. I have the following configuration:
MySQL 4.1.20
PHP 4.3.9
Apache 2.0.52

A related issue is: I have "Webform" installed and have set the permission to do everything for the webform this same role, but the user still does not have any access. I am not sure if this is related, but want to give you all the information possible. Thanks

--jimmy

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drumm’s picture

drumm
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Were all of the user profiles active users? Blocked users can only be viewed with administer users permissions.

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diakonos commented

The users in question are all active.

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JirkaRybka commented

As for the user profiles - Drupal contains an additional restriction, so user profiles that never logged in yet show as 404's. This is a good measure against spam, because otherwise spam-bots would be able to plant arbitrary things to your site by just anonymously submitting user-registration form (especially if you've anything like "personal website" or other link-style profile fields).

But however, there are scenarios where admin creates fake profiles himself, wanting them to be visible without the formal login. Then, the Drupal's behavior is wrong, I believe.

Please see http://drupal.org/node/171117 for further discussion, and my patch, which is waiting for review.

I don't know what 'Webform' is, but the user-profile part here is a duplicate issue.

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JirkaRybka commented
Title: Permission issue: assigned permission issue » Access to user profiles and Webform

Oh, and the title was non-descriptive, so I tried to improve it a bit :)

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dpearcefl commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (won't fix)

Due to the age of the last comment on this issue and due to the fact that D5 is no longer supported, I am closing this issue.