[wp-hackers] CUSTOM_USER_TABLE and CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE broken

[Jeremy Visser]

I've put the following in wp-config.php to share my user tables among
multiple WP installs:

        define ('CUSTOM_USER_TABLE', 'wp_users');
        define ('CUSTOM_USER_META_TABLE', 'wp_usermeta');

However, I'm getting the infamous "You do not have sufficient
permissions to access this page" error, and I'm not the first:

<http://www.google.com/search?q=custom_user_table+"You+do+not+have+sufficient+permissions+to+access+this+page.">

No solutions I've seen worked. My blog prefix is "wp_jv_", so I tried
renaming the meta_keys "wp_capabilities" and "wp_user_level" in
wp_usermeta to "wp_jv_capabilities" and "wp_jv_user_level", but no dice.

Someone also suggested editing the following in
wp-includes/capabilities.php:

        $this->cap_key = $wpdb->prefix . 'capabilities';

to this:

        $this->cap_key = 'wp_capabilities';

No dice.

Obviously, something is broken. Can we try and track down what it is?
It's non-critical for me, but I'd still like to try and get to the
bottom of this.

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Jeremy Visser                                 http://jeremy.visser.name/

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