permission problem

[dominioboys]

I'm an admin
in the "default" section permissions I set a read-only board except for the admins but why doesn't it let me create posts?

[Illori]

you must have a mod that broke something, admin always have all permissions unless something went horribly wrong. try to load clean files and test it again.

[dominioboys]

I put a virgin installation without mod I remember that the admin group like permsso had written "all" and instead there is the number 69 which is all the permissions I put on it

[Illori]

then that group is not the real admin group that is what is causing your issues.

[dominioboys]

how do i discover the real group from the level id? mine in phpmyadmin is the 18id level

[Arantor]

It's group 1. If you deleted group 1, you broke your installation and no amount of fudging can fix that.

[dominioboys]

but can I change it from phpmyadmin? or should I re-install smf?

[Arantor]

Fresh install in either a new database or a new database prefix. After that, don't touch the database directly!

[Illori]

I do hope you have at least one post count based group as well... very bad things can happen if you remove that.