4 Replies Latest reply on Mar 14, 2004 3:50 PM by julien1

    private forums and groups

    gcruscoe

      I am new to all nukes stuff, so I'm sorry if this is a simple misunderstanding on my part, but I have searched and searched and cannot find the answer.

      I want to use the forums in such a way as to keep forums private from everybody except specific users in the groups that I set up.

      Here are more details of what I'm trying to do.

      I have created two groups.

      I want the users of a group to be able to access the forums for their group only. I have it set it up, so that you cannot see anything if you're not logged in (done, easy setting the forum to REG).

      But what I really want to do is set the forum to private and that only a user of a specific group can use the the forums set up for that group.

      I have created a group and added a user to it.

      I have created categories and forums. I have set the forums to private (and then no one not even the admin can see them).

      How can I set a forum to allow certain users (hopefully using the groups) access them. I have set them to private so no body can access them, now I just want to let one group use it.

      I was already using JBOSS 3.2.3 and I downloaded the Nukes 1.0 for mySql. Everything seems to be working great, except I can't find anyway to say that a group should have rights to certain forums.

      If someone could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciated it!

      Thanks,
      Geoff

        • 1. Re: private forums and groups
          gcruscoe

          Okay, so I've gotten a little further (but still quite lost :))

          So I found the permission module.

          I then found the bb component.

          I was able to select one of my groups from the Group drop down.

          And then for permision I put in a category name and appended .*

          For the Level I give it ADMIN. And now users of that group have ADMIN capabilities for the forum. Hurray!!!

          After experimenting a while I have a system that works as I want it to, but I'm not really sure how this is supposed to work.

          The user's can't see anything until I give the group comment level security. Then they have the rights I have assigned to the forum. What do these security levels mean since add/edit/delete don't effect the add/edit/delete privileges (as they are defined for the forum)

          The other question is I noticed that some things use a .*:.*:.* pattern. What is this about?


          Thanks again,
          Geoff

          • 2. Re: private forums and groups

            I have put some stuff in the wiki for the security http://jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=NukesSecurity

            • 3. Re: private forums and groups
              paginaweb

              Since is phpBB you can look in phpBB docs if you really need:)

              PaginaWeb
              http://www.paginaweb.ro

              • 4. Re: private forums and groups

                the security in that module is a mix between our and BB.
                our security is used to say what groups have what BB level (moderator and admin)