From 6dc84deca93e7bc8688ca1dccd18bd8d77a7d275 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Baris Usakli <barisusakli@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:37:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] allow admins mods to watch/ignore categories for other users

---
 public/src/client/account/categories.js |  2 +-
 src/socket.io/categories.js             | 12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/public/src/client/account/categories.js b/public/src/client/account/categories.js
index 84202b6696..b5feb6faa6 100644
--- a/public/src/client/account/categories.js
+++ b/public/src/client/account/categories.js
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ define('forum/account/categories', ['forum/account/header'], function (header) {
 			var $this = $(this);
 			var command = $this.attr('component') === 'category/watching' ? 'watch' : 'ignore';
 
-			socket.emit('categories.' + command, cid, function (err, modified_cids) {
+			socket.emit('categories.' + command, { cid: cid, uid: ajaxify.data.uid }, function (err, modified_cids) {
 				if (err) {
 					return app.alertError(err.message);
 				}
diff --git a/src/socket.io/categories.js b/src/socket.io/categories.js
index 8c7ac5d394..97bdc7d44c 100644
--- a/src/socket.io/categories.js
+++ b/src/socket.io/categories.js
@@ -174,9 +174,17 @@ SocketCategories.ignore = function (socket, cid, callback) {
 };
 
 function ignoreOrWatch(fn, socket, cid, callback) {
+	var targetUid = socket.uid;
 	var cids = [parseInt(cid, 10)];
+	if (typeof cid === 'object') {
+		targetUid = cid.uid;
+		cids = [parseInt(cid.cid, 10)];
+	}
 
 	async.waterfall([
+		function (next) {
+			user.isAdminOrGlobalModOrSelf(socket.uid, targetUid, next);
+		},
 		function (next) {
 			db.getSortedSetRange('categories:cid', 0, -1, next);
 		},
@@ -201,11 +209,11 @@ function ignoreOrWatch(fn, socket, cid, callback) {
 			} while (cat);
 
 			async.each(cids, function (cid, next) {
-				fn(socket.uid, cid, next);
+				fn(targetUid, cid, next);
 			}, next);
 		},
 		function (next) {
-			topics.pushUnreadCount(socket.uid, next);
+			topics.pushUnreadCount(targetUid, next);
 		},
 		function (next) {
 			next(null, cids);