TLDR; I’d like to export the permissions I’ve added to the authenticated role, and have them appear on a different server when installing the custom module. However, when I install the module on a fresh server, the permissions for the authenticated user remain as default, but I can see in admin/config/development/features that there are pending changes, and once I import them the settings are correctly applied. Why aren’t they applied on loading the module?
First I log into a blank dev site, navigate to admin/people/permissions and add the Article: Create new content permission for the authenticated user (which I know is create article content from looking at the page source in my browser).
I now navigate to admin/config/development/features/edit and select Roles->Authenticate user (authenticated), pick a module name, enable Mark all config as required and click Download Archive.
The result is a module that contains 3 files:
my_module.features.yml
required: true
my_module.info.yml
name: 'my module'
type: module
core: 8.x
dependencies:
- user
Since I’m using 9.0.7 I changed this to;
name: 'my module'
type: module
core_version_requirement: '^8 || ^9'
dependencies:
- user
config/install/user.role.authenticated.yml
langcode: en
status: true
dependencies: { }
id: authenticated
label: 'Authenticated user'
weight: 1
is_admin: false
For some reason Features didn’t pick up my permission changes, so I changed this manually to;
langcode: en
status: true
dependencies: { }
id: authenticated
label: 'Authenticated user'
weight: 1
is_admin: false
permissions:
- 'create article content'
Now I tried to install the module by copying it to /modules/custom/my_module and running drush en my_module on a completely clean site. However, when I navigate to admin/people/permissions I see this:
When I go to admin/config/development/features/diff/my_module I can see that my features were correctly interpreted, just not applied:
If I now select Import Changes the permissions apply correctly. But why aren’t they already applied, when the my_module module is clearly enabled?
I tried playing around with the weight value in user.role.authenticated.yml to no avail (I changed it to 9999 and -9999 but it didn’t seem to have any impact).
The fact that I had to modify my user.role.authenticated.yml indicates that something has perhaps gone wrong at the export step, but I don’t know enough about the features module to know if these events are related.