[Morrus]

Originally Posted by GearTripper

i'm using a combination of usergroup permissions and a forum password with a promotion... took me all of about 5 minutes to set it up. to set the forum password, just go to your Forum Manager >> Access Options >> Forum Password (Optional: This acts in addition to any other permissions set for this forum). the only problem with a simple password is that once, it's out and known... it can be shared amongst users and becomes useless.

Doing that does not answer the original poster's question. Doing that makes a user without access see 0 threads/posts. What he asked was how to show the number of posts and threads on the forum index, but still have the forum password protected.