making a forum READ ONLU

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Originally Posted by Raul7

hi, thats the problem, lets say i got 2 user group REG and REG-READ ONLY, i want REG to have access, but REG-READ, only be able to READ and not reply, REG group is made by default, and there are 8000 users there, to create REG-READ, i went to usergroup managers, add a new group, created a group based on REG, changed the name to REG-ONLY, set the permission based on REG, and group was made, now i clicked on forum permissions, went to the forum that i want REG-READ to only have READ permission, click on REG-READ usergroup changed the settings, can view forum is YES, the rest are all NO for that forum ONLY, now, when i put a user in REG-READ user group,they can NOT see any forum, when i put them in REG and REG-READ, everything is open, i think its because REG takes over ... i am not sure what else i can do .. thanks for the help

Oh that has to do with the hiearchy of permissions, there is a way to set it to where the primary usergroup permissions do not permeate into the the secondary....Maybe someone else can shed some light on the subject.