Promotion Permissions

[adamjs]

Forum version: SMF 2.0.10 (more detailed)
Current SMF version: SMF 2.0.10
MySQL version: 5.5.43-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
PHP: 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.9
Server version: Apache


Afternoon All

I have a website that I'm newly administering.

They have user permissions set as
100
90
80

etc,etc.

All members at 60+ can promote, but can promote to above their level, by 1. IE a 60 can promote to 70, etc. and they can promote themselves.
On this logic, they can promote themselves by one rank 4 times and become permission 100.

On the old SMF, you could restrict what ranks could promote to which level to prevent this from happening. Is there a way to do it on the updated version? I can't seem to find it.

Thank you in advanced for the assistance.

Kind regards,
Adam.

[Kindred]

What do those numbers mean?

Because, I don't think you could EVER dupo whatbyouvarebworried suggesting.

Post count based groups are automatic based on the post count.
2.0 introduced joinable and requestable groups..  But moderators for those groups are individually assigned, not by another membergroup

[adamjs]

What do those numbers mean?

Because, I don't think you could EVER dupo whatbyouvarebworried suggesting.

Post count based groups are automatic based on the post count.
2.0 introduced joinable and requestable groups..  But moderators for those groups are individually assigned, not by another membergroup

Each group is assigned a security/permission number.

100 is full permission, OWNER
90 is CO-OWNER, which has similar permission but less.
80 is management
10 is Guest (extremely limited) and there are a multitude of levels inbetween. The lower the number, the lower the permissions,etc.
So on and so forth. I apologise, I am new to SMF so I'm not sure if this is simply aesthetic or actually holds a security rating.

They do not user post-count based groups - Moderators assign members to groups when necessary.
But the main fact is there are groups. In the old setting it would work like this:

A level 60 member (lets call him a moderator for argument's sake) could assign anyone below him/her to any group below him/her. So they could change a member to groups 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50, but couldn't assign them to a group higher than themselves (prevents moderators being able to put members in the 'owner' group). They now have that ability and I can't see where to adjust this.

If the numbers are confusing you, the main question (I think) is how do I restrict moderators to which group they can assign members?

I apologise, I am not explaining this well, it is late.
I hope you can make sense of this.

[Kindred]

Nope.. There is no way to do what you are asking in smf without compketely redesigning the permissions system

[Illori]

you could use the group moderators function to do some of this, but you would have to assign the users manually to each group they can add/remove members to.

[Kindred]

Except, if you read, the OP wants anyone in a group to be able to assign a lower group, which means that user a, at level 60 could take user b (currently level 20) and bump him to jebel 50... And now user b has permission to bump other users to level 40, instead of level 10.


As I said, there is no way to automatically do this without redesigning the entire permisions system

[margarett]

It seems that this *IS* working already so you should have a MOD for it.

So... Which MODs do you have?

[Illori]

i bet the op is giving out permission to modify groups...