Error adding groups when user cannot modify an existing group membership
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	Catalan
	Jul 21 2017, 7:59 PM

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I have an account on TheTestWiki.org. On that wiki, there is a "test" user group that allows admins to test adding and removing rights through Special:UserRights. However, when I tried to add the "test" group to my account on that wiki, I kept getting an error message that said "the expiry time for group "sysop" is invalid". My account has indefinite sysop rights on that wiki, and I didn't touch the sysop right when attempting to add the test group. This is weird, and the owner of the wiki says that it's a MediaWiki issue. See the screenshot below.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Fix issue when modifying groups in Special:Userrights	mediawiki/core	master	+4 -0

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T171379: Enable the user with flood flag to remove themselves from the group on zh.wiki

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Catalan created this task.Jul 21 2017, 7:59 PM

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Catalan triaged this task as Medium priority.Jul 21 2017, 7:59 PM

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Mainframe98 added a project: MediaWiki-User-management.Jul 21 2017, 8:34 PM

Confirmed with the following configuration settings on MediaWiki-Vagrant:

$wgGroupPermissions['test']['read'] = true;
$wgGroupsAddToSelf['sysop'][] = 'test';
$wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf['sysop'] = true;

Adding the third line seems to do the trick. If it is disabled, adding and removing rights functions fine.

Skizzerz renamed this task from Error while setting user groups on TheTestWiki.org to Error adding groups when user cannot modify an existing group membership.Jul 23 2017, 4:10 AM

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Patch pending review at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/367128/ -- would appreciate if someone could give it a look over

Change 367128 had a related patch set uploaded (by Legoktm; owner: Skizzerz):
[mediawiki/core@master] Fix issue when modifying groups in Special:Userrights

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/367128

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hashar mentioned this in T171379: Enable the user with flood flag to remove themselves from the group on zh.wiki.Jul 27 2017, 1:29 PM

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• TBolliger moved this task from Backlog to User rights on the MediaWiki-User-management board.Jan 12 2018, 10:57 PM

Change 367128 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Fix issue when modifying groups in Special:Userrights

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/367128

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.31-release-notes (WMF-deploy-2018-02-06 (1.31.0-wmf.20)).Jan 30 2018, 9:02 PM

Skizzerz closed this task as Resolved.Jan 30 2018, 9:04 PM