Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Access Denied checking out Master Page and other strange permission issues

We are having some very strange permissions problems with one of our customers. First off all of the document libraries, and lists in the entire Site Collection and sub sites do not show the Settings Button menu. You can still get to the settings through all Site Settings, Site Administrations and then Customize the the Content.

As well when going to a doc lib or list the "Edit Page" under site actions are missing.

I have also tried to just check out any of the pages in the Master Page Gallery and receive and "ACCESS DENIED" page.

We have tried several different users all having Site Admin, Designers, Full Control permissions. I have even checked to ensure that there are no unique permission set on these lists or doc libs.

I also created a new sub site with Unique permissions and still have the same issues. Appears to be something with Web Application but I can't find what the problem is.

************************ UPDATE ************************************

Oh what an idiot I am. Never occurred to me to look in the most obvious place.

Check what you currently have as the' User Permissions for the Web Application' by going to Central Administration -> Application Management (for the pertinent Web Application) -> User Permissions for Web Application (Under Application Security Category) and see if all permissions here are checked. If not, they will not filter down to any of the Site Collection permissions.

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