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FockerFGAA · #1 12-15-2009, 03:21 PM

So I made a new forum that I wanted viewable by only a certain set of people. So I created it and then went into the forum permissions and then Denied all. Then I went in and manually switched from default to Yes for the 5 people I wanted. The forum was created based off another forum that was for admins so the settings were all set to be hidden and such. However I posted in it and then someone that shouldn't have had access was able to post in it as well. I checked their permissions and it was set to default and I checked every usergroup they were part of and they were all set to No everything for that forum.

I run vbulletin 3.7.4 and I was just curious if there was some known issue with that or some anomaly that just happened or what.

Lynne · #2 12-15-2009, 03:45 PM

Are you using Access Masks? Could they have been turned on and then users were added through that?

FockerFGAA · #3 12-15-2009, 03:51 PM

I usually just go through the User part and edit their forum permissions there. I checked the Access Masks and the person was not one of those listed to view it. And I created the forum about 5-10 minutes before he posted in it and I was the only person on at the time that could have added him.

Lynne · #4 12-15-2009, 03:54 PM

Do you have a test user that you can test this with? Whenever I am playing with forums and forum permissions, I open up another browser (I use firefox mainly, so I'll open up Safari or Opera) with a test user that has the same permissions as the regular users and I see what they see every step of the way. Could it be that he got in there when you first created the forum and before you hit Deny All?

FockerFGAA · #5 12-15-2009, 03:55 PM

Nah he responded to a thread that I put up after I changed all the settings.

The only thing I could think of was all of his permissions were set to Yes or No and not to Default from what I am seeing on the Access Mask area. Even if I put everyone to deny all on the forum permissions is it Possible that his defaulted to Yes?

Lynne · #6 12-15-2009, 03:59 PM

If you go to the Forum in Forum Permissions and click on Deny All, then no one, including you The Admin, should be able to get into the forum.

FockerFGAA · #7 12-15-2009, 04:02 PM

Ya and I couldn't get into it until i manually set myself to Yes through the User Permissions. I checked all his permissions and everything at the time and there was no real reason why he should have been able to post there.

Lynne · #8 12-15-2009, 04:03 PM

What do you mean you set it through User Permissions? You should be doing it on the Forum Permissions page > find forum > click on Edit next to the usergroup. You don't do it individually.

FockerFGAA · #9 12-15-2009, 04:05 PM

I did it individually because I didn't have a usergroup created since the people that are supposed to be able to view it are at different levels of usergroups.

Lynne · #10 12-15-2009, 04:42 PM

So you used Access Masks?

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