[amykhar]

What it does is when you create a new private forum or make a forum private that wasn't private before, it sets a field in the database to mark it as private.

Then, when you create a new user group, it sets the forumpermissions to can't view for all private forums. This way, you can create a new group and not have them see your private forums by default.

I am not 100% sure, but cutting this code:

PHP Code:

$mods=$DB_site->query("SELECT DISTINCT moderator.userid FROM moderator,user WHERE moderator.userid=user.userid AND user.usergroupid<>6 AND user.usergroupid<>5");
    if ($DB_site->num_rows($mods)) {
      while ($mod=$DB_site->fetch_array($mods)) {
        $accessto[] = $mod['userid'];
      }
      while ( list($key,$userid)=each($accessto) ) {
        $DB_site->query("INSERT INTO access (userid,forumid,accessmask) VALUES ('$userid','$forumid',1)");
      }
    }
  } 


out of your forum.php file should fix your problem for NEW forums that you create. However, if you take an existing forum and make it private, the same thing would still happen. I will investigate the code for changing a forum a little closer and see if I can't get that fixed as well.

Amy