[Carnage]

this can be done relitivly easilly. though what other effects it would have i don't know... personally, in your case i'd have them sign up to post and create a special usergroup for the privilaged members for access to the extra forums.

however if you insist on doing this: (i'm hoping you have phpmyadmin or a simlar thing installed...) find the `usergroup` table. the usergroup you need to edit is group 1 find the forum permissions coloum edit the value in there to be the current value + 8192

again, i'd recormend against doing this, since there must be a reason vb didn't allow this option in the first place...

another option might be to create a 'guest' account so they can login with the username guest and password 'password' for example, but you'd need a hack so they can't use the usercp...