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Arranging permissions and paid access to some groups

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langdons:
Hi

I have recently installed a copy of SMF 2.0 beta 3.1 and am struggling to understand how the permissions system works.  This is what I am trying to achieve:

1. Guests and registered users can see all boards and read all posts in all boards
2. Guests and all registered users can post to one or more "general" boards
3. Only registered users with a paid subscription can post to a "non-general" board.  There will be many non-general boards each with its own subscription.

I have read all of the documentation that I can find and played with the system for the best part of a day trying to get it right, but no luck.

Can anyone point me to some documentation for SMF 2.x security?  A worked example would be ideal, but I will take any help will be appreciated.

Langdon

Nathaniel:
Here is the permissions documentation.

In terms of help for setting up what you want, here are the steps that I would take.

Make a new paid membergroup for every different board that you want users to be able to be a part of.

Then when you create the board, make it so that the "Allowed Groups:" only includes the groups which you want to be able to see that board, just make sure that Regular Members and guests are unchecked for that board.

Every member can be a part of multiple secondary membergroups, so that should mean that they can join as many paid membergroups as they like, and they will only be able to see the extra boards for those membergroups.

Just as an extra note, you don't actually need to give special permissions to the new paid membergroups because if you have added them to the allowed group for the special boards, then they will have the privilages for their normal membergroup (Regular Members) in that board.

In short, this should be relatively easy, there is no need to muck around with the complicated permissions schemes or etc.

metallica48423:
Keep in mind that the 2.0 documentation isn't completed yet. 

What specific things are you looking for?

langdons:
Hi LHVWB and metallica48423

Thanks for the feedback.  I have started from scratch with a clean install and I think that I have made progress.  I have to fully test the Paypal integration yet and work out how to make non-general boards visible and read only.  I will keep at it and see how it goes.

Thanks again.

Langdon

metallica48423:
Okay :).  Let us know how it goes

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