handing out logins
 

I want to use my vbulletin forum as a technical support resource but i want to limit it to our customers (ie. someone buys our product - we give them a login)

Anyone ever set this up? Suggestions on an easy way to implement. Basically it would be a private resource that we grant persmission for. If you are not confirmed as our customer there is no access.

thanks for any help

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Simply set in your options not to allow any new registrations, and create your user manually in admincp.

Or if you use your vbulletin for your sales, set a new usergroup as customers and only them have permissions to see. Others will only see info about your products

will the thread topics still be viewable? I would like search engine crawlers to still see this stuff...

I am not sure it does that by default. But there are some hacks that allow the display of those threads, like a teaser. And of course, when they click on it, if they don't have permissions they will not see it.

Something that may be useful to you: Add new Users (automatically)