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permission managment

 
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Most probably this question was asked in past but I didn't found them by a search, so I ask them again:

Wouldn't it be easier to give positiv access rights to the groups ?
So with this approach if I create a new restricted forum, I would create a new group with the permission to access this forum or give the new access right to an existing group.

Problem now with 2.1.8 is: when I create a new restricted forum, I have to change the permission of every single group and exclude the new restricted forum. That's more complicated than give an additional access right to one or more groups.

Or is there an easier way to do this in 2.1.8?

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I agree - handling permissions correctly in 2.1.8 is error-prone. It is very easy to get it wrong.

It would be nice if the permissions were category/forum-centric instead of only editable through user groups. It would be more useful to edit permissions from the category/forum-listings directly. It doesn't make much sense that you can add user groups when creating new forums, but from then on you cannot manipulate them.

Hopefully this will be more intuitive in v3.

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:idea: I would think the easiest thing is to define a default permission when creating the forum that is applied to all existing groups. Normal forums would then have a public read write default and private forums would have a no access default.
[originally posted on jforum.net by DanDare]
 
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