Help with forum permission

[pran]

I have a problem with forum permissions. I created a forum accessible only to moderators and admins but moderators are not able to view the forum. The moderators are primary users of a group called "Board Regulars" and additional users of the moderators group. However, if I change their primary membership to "Registered", they can see the forum. The forum has the following permissions:

• (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation: Deny all
• Administrators: Allow all
• Banned Users: Deny all
• Board Regulars: Deny all
• Moderators: Allow all
• Probationary Users: Deny all
• Registered: Deny all
• Super Moderators: Allow all
• Unregistered / Not Logged In: Deny all
• Users Awaiting Email Confirmation: Deny all

I tried looking for the code that checks the permission of the user for the particular forum just before displaying it but I couldn't find it. Can someone point me to the right direction? Thanks in advance.

[chris2707]

It's more usual to have Moderators, Super Moderators and Administrators as Primary usergroups. It's likely that due to the extra abilities, the code only checks a Primary usergroup for moderating ability. Why not make your moderators Primary groups and set Board Regulars as a secondary usergroup.

[pran]

Thanks chris. Although your suggestion solves my problem but the question still remains, why is it happening on my board? On another board that I setup (un-hacked), the permissions work fine.

[pran]

Over the weekend, I compared the stock 3.0.3 (including the MySQL tables) with my modified board and the the changes to the PHP files are very minimal. I think it has something to do with the upgrades my board has undergone (from 2.x to 3.0).