users getting the activation OK, but not getting activated

[gulldarek]

Permissions are based on bitfields so without some mathematical skills ;-) and knowing which value will do what you can't manually change those in db.

For example canviewforum may be 2, and candownloadattachements may be 4, candeletepost = 8 etc. So you've to sum all of these and put the right number in proper field in your db. I think you should just go through your user permission system in acp so it'll do this for you.