Admin permissions on Manage Posts page

[cbandy]

When logged in as admin, the Delete button on the Manage Posts page (wp-admin/edit.php) always displays "You don't have permission to do that" and does not delete a post.

Digging, I found that check_ajax_referer compares the current user_login to the USER_COOKIE value passed in the request. The current user_login is the plain string "admin" while the value in the request appears encoded in some way, and the test ( $current_name != $user ) is always false.

Commenting out line 367-368 in wp-includes/pluggable.php solved for me.

[cbandy]

Possibly related to #3720 as commented by miklb on 03/13/07

[mrmist]

Think this one is no longer an issue.