How can I delegate permissions to change mod settings?

[ewann]

I have a 2.0RC3 board with Simple Portal. My question is how do I delegate the right to access the ModifyModSettings functions and admin area to a specific group without having to give that group the right to admin the forums. The group I need to grant this right to are moderators of all boards and have the right to admin membergroups.

I'm a long-time admin of SMF but have never tried to write a mod myself.  I've written a mod which contains mod settings under Admin -> Configuration -> Modification Settings -> my mod. This is all working fine for an admin, but I need to delegate this to the other semi-admin group.

I've added a new permission which will be used for a) showing a menu item and b) allowing them access to the mod settings.  The permission works as I can test showing the menu-item - but clicking on it (which goes to ?action=admin;area=modsettings;sa=mymod) just brings up the welcome-screen to the admin center due to them not having admin_forums rights.

Is it possible to do what I want without making them full admins (REALLY don't want to do that)? Or is there a way I put this in an area where the group can access it easilly while still utilising the modsettings functions?

I hope I've given enough info (and that it actually makes sense), I have tried to search but am not quite sure of the correct terms to search for and haven't found anything yet.

[Kill Em All]

Some mods will actually have them built in with them, but most mods don't... so short answer is no, you can't do that.