If a user tries to create a branch and has not created their home project, then the branch creation will fail with a permission error because only home:#{self.login} is special cased in can_create_project? and not home:#{self.login} and all subprojects of it. If home:#{self.login} is created before creating a subproject this isn't a problem because of has_local_permission? walking up the tree until it find a project where the user has a role, but without home:#{self.login} existing, the walk of the tree will hit 'home' when looking for permissions and only Admins will have permissions there. I've attached a patch so the special case is extended to home:#{self.login} or any subproject of it. This may be fixed in the newer code or a different location in the code, I've only checked https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse/trunk/buildservice/src/frontend/ap... and it looks the same as the 1.0 stuff I'm running.