some minor cleanup of unreported (and as yet undiscovered) issues with permissions toggling. No smoking guns and no obvious issues discovered here. Repeated and tried to duplicate zottell's issue as described without seeing any obvious problems.

include/follow.php

@@ -203,8 +203,9 @@ function new_contact($uid,$url,$channel,$interactive = false, $confirm = false)
 			return $result;
 		}
 
-		$r = q("select count(*) as total from abook where abook_account = %d and ( abook_flags & ABOOK_FLAG_FEED )",
-			intval($aid)
+		$r = q("select count(*) as total from abook where abook_account = %d and ( abook_flags & %d )",
+			intval($aid),
+			intval(ABOOK_FLAG_FEED)
 		);
 		if($r)
 			$total_feeds = $r[0]['total'];

include/identity.php

@@ -376,6 +376,8 @@ function create_identity($arr) {
 			set_pconfig($newuid,'system','permissions_role',$arr['permissions_role']);
 			if(array_key_exists('online',$role_permissions))
 				set_pconfig($newuid,'system','hide_presence',1-intval($role_permissions['online']));
+			if(array_key_exists('perms_auto',$role_permissions))
+				set_pconfig($newuid,'system','autoperms',(($role_permissions['perms_auto']) ? $role_permissions['perms_accept'] : 0));
 		}
 
 		// Create a group with yourself as a member. This allows somebody to use it 

mod/settings.php

@@ -337,6 +337,7 @@ function settings_post(&$a) {
 				intval(local_user()),
 				intval(ABOOK_FLAG_SELF)
 			);
+			set_pconfig(local_user(),'system','autoperms',(($role_permissions['perms_auto']) ? intval($role_permissions['perms_accept']) : 0));
 
 			foreach($role_permissions as $p => $v) {
 				if(strpos($p,'channel_') !== false) {

version.inc

@@ -1 +1 @@
-2014-11-04.849
+2014-11-05.850