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#27829 Admin Tools maybe overly restrictive on front-end Admin users

Posted in ‘Admin Tools for Joomla! 4 & 5’
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Latest post by tampe125 on Monday, 22 May 2017 03:05 CDT

Sunday, 21 May 2017 19:39 CDT

petekuhn
 This is just for your info, as it is no longer a problem for me once I figured out why it was happening.

The problem I had was that users were not able to get their passwords reset via email from Community Builder. When they tried, they got an Access Denied message.

It turned out the users with this problem were Admin users, and apparently AdminTools blocks password reset if Admin users cannot be created on the front-end (a reasonable default for that parameter).

Anyway, I have no interest in debating what the correct behavior should be. I only wanted to highlight it to you in case you weren't aware of the behavior.

Thanks for all of your help in the past.

Monday, 22 May 2017 03:05 CDT

tampe125
Hello,

thank you very much for your report.
I suspect this is a "false positive" case: the request seems suspicious and Admin Tools blocks it. You have two options here: completely disable the feature or set up an entry inside WAF Exceptions

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