I've seen this on my system before and it was always with a field with no 
permissions assigned.
Flushing the cache resolves it sometimes, but I've seen it come back after 
subsequent flushes.

Try assigning an un-used permissions group to the field.

Greg

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From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charlie Lotridge
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 10:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Permission problem

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I'm at a loss and would appreciate any suggestions on how to fix this.


I have a field on a form that has no privileges configured on it, so no one but 
full admins should see it.  But for some reason an underprivileged user account 
can see this field on the mid-tier running on the same machine, call it machine 
QA.  I have the same form on a server & mid-tier running on machine DEV, and 
the field is appropriately invisible to the (effectively) same user account.

If I point DEV's mid-tier at server QA, the field is appropriately invisible.

If I point QA's mid-tier at server DEV, the field is appropriately invisible.

I've tried the above on different browsers running on different machines with 
the same results.

So, it seems that the problem manifests ONLY when QA's mid-tier is pointing at 
QA's server.

I've (of course) tried flushing the cache on QA's mid-tier, bouncing QA's 
Tomcat, and even bouncing machine QA itself, but the problem persists.  And 
during the these bounces, I've turned off QA's cache persistence but no joy.

The field (in this case) is a display field, so this is NOT an issue about 
seeing or modifying data without appropriate privileges.  So I have no reason 
to suspect a problem with ARS itself not enforcing permission policies, and in 
fact the evidence (outlined above) would seem to suggest something wrong with 
QA's mid-tier.  But it IS an issue (to me) that the field is visible.

I've simplified my description here a bit and the problem does extend beyond 
what I've described here.  But my guess is that if I can solve this problem the 
other similar elements will resolve too.  Still, if appears relevant I can 
describe more details.

All of the servers and mid-tiers are running v8.1.01

Has anyone seen this before?  Any suggestions on how to fix this?  I haven't 
gone as far as uninstalling/reinstalling the mid-tier or tomcat yet, do anyone 
think this will help?

Thanks,
Charlie
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