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Hi

A client mistakenly edited the guest member group and allowed them to access the CP.

This has resulted in the following PHP errors:

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: array_keys(): The first argument should be an array
Filename: libraries/Menu.php
Line Number: 208

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /path/to/webspace/httpdocs/system/codeigniter/system/core/Exceptions.php:170)
Filename: core/Common.php
Line Number: 405

They cannot now access the CP. Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks

Of course the quick fix for this is to login to the database via PHPMyAdmin or similar and then roll back the changes made to the Guests Group in “exp_member_groups”. You can copy the settings from the POending Group.

Bluebloc,

With that quick fix, are you good to go?

Cheers,

Yes. But still unsure why access to CP is disabled. Is this intentional?

Bluebloc,

You are asking if the Guest member group is intentionally disallowed from accessing the CP, is this correct? If so, yes, that is by design. The Guest member group is there for the average visitor to your site. Allowing this group to access the CP would leave it wide open to anyone who comes along. Unless I have completely missed your question?

Cheers,

I completely understand that. I just wondered why it was possible for an admin to change the Guest group’s CP access settings.

Anyhow, you can close this one out. And thanks for your replies

That’s a very good point, Bluebloc. Granting them CP access shouldn’t even be possible. In that light, I’ve filed a bug report on this on your behalf so that our developers know about it.

Let us know if there’s anything else we can do to help!