FIX: Drag/Drop Executes Create and Add with Insufficient Rights

 Last reviewed: August 25, 1997
Article ID: Q132931
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft SourceSafe for Windows, versions 3.04, 3.1
  • Microsoft SourceSafe for Windows NT, versions 3.04, 3.1

STATUS

A user without sufficient rights to add items in the SourceSafe database can do so with the Drag/drop from File Manager option.

MORE INFORMATION

To duplicate this problem:

  1. Create a user in the SSADMIN utility with only RC rights on the $/ project.

  2. Start SourceSafe as that user.

  3. Drag a sub-directory from the right-hand pane of File Manager and drop on the $/ project on the left-hand pane of the SourceSafe GUI.

  4. The project will be successfully added even though the user does not have sufficient rights to add items into the SourceSafe database.

RESOLUTION

There is no way to work around for this problem in SourceSafe 3.1. Obtain Visual SourceSafe 4.0 to work around the problem.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This problem has been corrected in Visual SourceSafe version 4.0. 

Keywords          : SourceSafe ss3 vbwin kbbuglist
Version           : 3.04 3.1
Platform          : NT WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

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Last reviewed: August 25, 1997
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