Need to minimise the rights of a specific user

Hi,

I have a user registered on my forum that I suspect to be a spy/lurker.
Can I alter the member's permissions (I do not want him to be able to view certain pages and forums of mine, only the Intro board, etc, but not the other main boards)
How do i go about setting which forums he has viewing access to?
Please advise.

Regards

Create a group and restrict it's permissions. Then add the questionable member to the group.

SLGray wrote:Create a group and restrict it's permissions. Then add the questionable member to the group.

I need instructions for that - I already tried, but I cant get right
I did create a group and when I goto Modify permissions, it only allows me to tick the "Moderator" box for each forum, so they can moderate the specific forum. but I haven't seen anything where I can "untick" which forum they have access or view or write in.

Users & groups>Group Administration
Set it up such a way for say user sanket
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0ad140ua82
Add a single member to the group, sanket in my case.

Then, General>Categories and Forums
Click on a forum name
Permissions tab
Uncheck the options for this individual group.

Note, you will need to have a Autosubscribed members group with 0 posts, otherwise this won't work. Because, if you check the default members group it checks it for all the other groups.

Hope you understand.

Autosubscribed members group? How do I do that?

Sanket wrote:Users & groups>Group Administration
Set it up such a way for say user sanket
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0ad140ua82
Add a single member to the group, sanket in my case.

Then, General>Categories and Forums
Click on a forum name
Permissions tab
Uncheck the options for this individual group.

Note, you will need to have a Autosubscribed members group with 0 posts, otherwise this won't work. Because, if you check the default members group it checks it for all the other groups.

Hope you understand.

I created an Autosubscribed members group and set the Minimum posts to 0, i don't really understand it, what do i do from here?

Please don't double/triple post. Your post need to be separated by 24 hours before bumping, replying or adding more information. Please use the edit button instead!

Did you do this?

Users & groups>Group Administration
Set it up such a way for say user sanket
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0ad140ua82
Add a single member to the group, sanket in my case.

Then, General>Categories and Forums
Click on a forum name
Permissions tab
Uncheck the options for this individual group.

Yes I did, but I cannot uncheck the options, it doesn't give me the option to do so, so I created an Autosubscribed members group and set the Minimum posts to 0, i don't really understand it, what do i do from here?

Hello,

All new registered members will then be placed on that group.

For the permissions Un-check first the permissions for 'members', then you can choose which groups has the ability to view a certain forum, post a topic etc. Then you can restrict that group from certain permissions.

Jophy wrote:Hello,

All new registered members will then be placed on that group.

For the permissions Un-check first the permissions for 'members', then you can choose which groups has the ability to view a certain forum, post a topic etc. Then you can restrict that group from certain permissions.

Okay thanks, but I'm still completely lost, I've taken a snap shot to show you what I mean:
As you can see in the first snapshot, I've created an Autosubscribe members group and set the messages to 0.



In this image, note that I cannot edit the simple permissions like view forum etc. The same is with the rest of the groups i have there, I cannot change the simple permissions. Why?

The bold part is the thing that you need to do now

Sanket wrote:Users & groups>Group Administration
Set it up such a way for say user sanket
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0ad140ua82
Add a single member to the group, sanket in my case.

Then, General>Categories and Forums
Click on a forum name
Permissions tab
Uncheck the options for this individual group.

Note, you will need to have a Autosubscribed members group with 0 posts, otherwise this won't work. Because, if you check the default members group it checks it for all the other groups.

Hope you understand.

The permissions that we are talking about are here:

Administration Panel > General > Forum > Categories & Forums
You will have to go through each forum's permissions.

SLGray wrote:The permissions that we are talking about are here:

Administration Panel > General > Forum > Categories & Forums
You will have to go through each forum's permissions.

I have tried! I have tried everything, but it's just greyed out. I cannot edit the permissions of Members, see here:

Instead of members, choose the blank one. Give it a try.

repchat wrote:

SLGray wrote:The permissions that we are talking about are here:

Administration Panel > General > Forum > Categories & Forums
You will have to go through each forum's permissions.

I have tried! I have tried everything, but it's just greyed out. I cannot edit the permissions of Members, see here:

Un-check the permissions for members first, then you can choose what groups you'll only give permissions.

thanks alot for the help guys, thanks for telling me to choose the BLANK instead, i would have NEVER guessed!