How to set pass for forum

[AWS3]

How to set forum's pass that will be oblige all of users (with admins and super moderatores)?

[cheat-master30]

For a forum, or the whole forum? There is a per forum require password option in the edit forum options screen in the Admin CP, but for a whole forum pass, maybe put the forums inside one forum and make that password protected?

[AWS3]

for one forum. I know how to set password protect forum...
In the manual you have:

Administrators, super moderators, and moderators of the forum in question will not be prompted for a password.

I want to disable this.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Why do you want to use a forum password, this is not much used anymore as there are often better ways to get the same result.

[AWS3]

I want to use a forum pass, because sb from competitive forum stolen admin account with unrestricted acces to important forums... I set up pass for ACP and he couldn't use it. So I had an idea to set passwords for important forums...
But you said "there are often better ways to get the same result". What do you mean?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If someone gained access to an admin account, your response should not be to add more passwords to forums, but to ensure that this account is not used/abused anymore.

[AWS3]

OK, I know, I banned this account & I'm watching logs every day, but I want to add extra protection as passes to forums for everyone. Is it possible?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You can add a .htaccess login, but adding forum passwords will hardly increase security. Most likely it will only annoy regular members.

[AWS3]

I can add a htaccess login for one of my sub-forums? How to do this?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

You can not have a .htaccess login for only sub-forums, you can only set this for the entire board.