Question Restricting access to certain forums

peetree21 wrote:

ok, um well i have my forum categories set with the following conditions for Author and above access.

Public Access :Author
Admin Access: Public Backend

So if you want a category to only be viewable only to Super Admins, then set the Public Access to Super Admins.

This is impossible, in the "Public Access" I can only select "Everybody" "All regestered" "Registered" "Editor" "Author" and "Publisher" level. For backend levels tehre is the Admin Access, and reading the description, I assume that "Admin Level" is an addiction to the resctiction level, but it not works!

Someone can help us about the restriction access problem?

As grunblemarc said, you need to install groupjive and implement it the correct way. I did it this way and it worked fine.

peetree21 wrote:

Setting the Admin Access i assume only allows Admin functions in them.

That's wrong.
Due to the fact that you can restrict access to public frontend groups only you have to specify additionally backend-groups.

GHz wrote:

I've tired to restrict access to a forum category only to admin or superadmin, but with no success! See my post here: www.kunena.com/forum?func=view&catid...10&start=50#7572

How is the solution?

Workaround for Admin-Only-Access:
1. in Joomla nobody gets Publisher-rights from you
2. Kunena-config -> Public Access Level: Publisher
3. Kunena-config -> Admin Access Level: Admin or Superadmin

So only Admins or Superadmin can see the category/forum, cause you have no publishers.

Attention!
!!! Be aware that every Admin/Superadmin can write/edit/delete articles in your Joomla frontend AND has access to the Joomla backend !!!

So restrict access to the backend additionaly with .htaccess and password you only know!

Workaround for one additional/private group in Kunena:
Take the author level instead the admin/superadmin if you need one additional or private group in Kunena without rights in Joomla.
No author can modify your Joomla, because he can write articles but NOT publish / edit or delete.

Plan A

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Forum/Category-config
-> Public Access Level: Author
-> Include Child Groups: No
-> Admin Access Level: Administrator
= access have author, admin, superadmin

Plan B

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Forum/Category-config
-> Public Access Level: Author
-> Include Child Groups: Yes
-> Admin Access Level: Administrator
= access have author, editor, publisher, admin, superadmin

Could you clarify if making them admins/superadmins gives them rights to your Joomla control panel? At first glance it seems your workaround allows this to happen.

That's not the question of Ghz.
Ofcourse every admin has access to the Joomla Control Panel.

If he don't want this, he can restrict the access to the /administration with .htaccess and password he only knows.