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Custom policy error is unhelpful
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Description

It should provide the exact policy that shows who can access the object, like with non-custom policies.

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Krenair changed the edit policy from "All Users" to "Custom Policy".
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I don't know what this ticket is about. If it's a bug report, please provide steps to reproduce per Contributing Bug Reports. If it's a feature request, please describe the core problem per Contributing Feature Requests.

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User (or project) based policies produce useful error messages if you can't view an object:

upstream-T9949-user.png (120×354 px, 9 KB)

It tells you who *can* view the object.

But the error is useless if it's a 'custom policy':

upstream-T9949-custom.png (125×440 px, 10 KB)