How to change permissions in Drupal 6 – in bulk

I did a silly thing on my current drupal project. I authoured all the new content (setting up menus and basic pages) as Administrator. Then when the Editor of the site went to edit them she couldn’t, as no-one gets to mess with the Admin’s work.

So I was faced with three options:

  1. Go through page by page changing the named authour on each one from ‘Admin’ to ‘editor’
  2. Do something in sql  (please don’t make me do this!)
  3. Find a module from someone clever to do it.

Luckily there is a module called ‘Node Adoption’ (on Drupalmodules.com) which does exactly this – lets you moves everything authoured as one user onto that of another. 5 minutes, job done…

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