I messed up the group permissions -- is there a way to reset them to default?

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I panicked yesterday when I received a member PM that I misinterpreted referred to a discussion in the Mod & Admin area of my forum (2.0.9) and changed a bunch of permissions. Lesson to be learned: don't panic!

At this point I don't know if I messed up the member permissions or not, and I don't recall the default for every permission -- there's lots of them!

I'll appreciate if somebody could tell me the easiest way to reset all the member group permissions to standard "just instaled" condition.

At the present I'm thinking I have a 2.0.9 test forum, and maybe the simplest way to reset is to truncate the permissions table on the production forum, export the table from my test forum and load it into the production forum.

Can you think of an easier or better way, and do you think my idea above would accomplish the desired result, or would I be messing up something else?

I can handle the board permissions easily enough, I think all I have to do is check the boxes for which member groups can access each category/board.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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I don't know of any good way to do that....

you could just delete the added groups and re-add them... but if you changed the base "general member" membergroup permissions then you are kinda out of luck...

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Well the problem is that I mistakenly thought I had members viewing the mod/admin forum from a PM I received, but it turned out to be a total mistake on my part.

I have only one added group and it's based upon the ordinary member permissions, but at this late date I can't recall what permissions I have adjusted across the board. I'd be happy with the defaults, and then any few I changed I can review what's there maybe change a few.

I'd be just as happy to lose all the permissions and start out from whatever the SMF 2.0.9 default is, and then I can just add my new group based on regular members, because I have 2 members I want to be able to participate in the Mod/Admin forum without being mod/admin.

It's a production forum I inherited for an open source software project, and I don't want to go experimenting if there is any chance somebody knows a simple way to just restore all SMF group permissions to virgin.

[Deaks]

Deprecated, I have marked this as solved if you need further help please let us know what you have tried since your last post.

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That's fine, it's solved. I've contained and treated the problem and there are no more issues.

[Deaks]

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Thank you for the help.