NetWorker: NWUI Browsable Recovery Asks ChangeSecuritySettings or ViewSecuritySettings Permission

• Doing a browsable restore in NWUI with a user that belongs to the "operators" group:
  
  Figure 1: NWUI - Recover and Savesets view

  
  Figure 2: NWUI - Selecting File Level recovery

• If you click "browse" here to locate the files you must recover, you see the error:
  
  Figure 3: Recovery Wizard - Browse button view

  
  Figure 4: Recovery Wizard - Failure after clicking the Browse button from Figure 3

  The error message is:

  Could not get directory contents.
  Permission denied. User <user> has no ChangeSecuritySettings or ViewSecuritySettings privilege.

   

  The user should not need such permission to perform a Browsable Recovery. NMC, for instance, does not require it.
  For the time being, if you must perform this operation in NWUI, you must grant the user with ViewSecuritySettings privilege.

• This issue does not avoid you from running the recovery; it only avoids you from selecting the files to recover. We could just have manually put the Path to recover:
  
  Figure 5: Recover Wizard - manually entering a path to recover from.

• Click Next, and do the recovery successfully.
  
  Figure 6: Recovery Wizard - Basic Configuration option where again you can select a path to recover to using Browse button.

• At the above screen again, it fails if we do click 'BROWSE', but that does not stop us from manually putting the path we want to direct our files into.
  
  Figure 7: Recovery Wizard - Successful recovery when entering manually the paths to recover from/to.

  After click 'finish', we can check the 'recover jobs' tab shows it completed:
  
  Figure 8: NWUI - Recover Jobs view showing our recovery entering manually the paths to recover from/to was successful.

This issue was caused by a code defect: NETWORKER-91941

As of today, there is no version with the fix.