Question User Groups, User Group Privileges, ACLs

Can you suggest any good ACL plugins which will work with Jomsocial and Kunena?

Hi,

I find the ACL of Joomla 1.5 extremely limiting. It only allows a certain set of categories and members can be a member of only one.

I have forums which are accessible to only a handful of members(Currently in SMF), but these members do not relate to any of the user groups within Joomla.

For instance I have a "S member" which gives them access to a specific forum, however the majority of these users are only authors for Joomla as are most of the users on my site, and i need them to stay as Authors.

I have 2 hidden forums with users granted specific case by case membership to the forum.

Given ACL in true form will not be in Joomla until 1.6 I was wondering if there was a way to grant access to view forums only if I specifically give you permissions instead of having them be a member of a specific user group.


Is this possible within the system as it is so far?

never mind. My search wasnt bringing up anything, but i found what i need now.

Cheers

can you share how you did it ? im intrested in the idea of this.

I just used an access control editor and added some new groups to the Joomla ACL. It isn't ideal because i don't want to mess with that too much before the 1.6 change.

I am going to go through the documentation when I get a chance and see how mambots interact with Kunena, I may be able to write a small and specific plugin to achieve this.

If I do I will post it here for you

Can I ask, why forum usergroups were not a part of the project?

I just can't get my head around this at the moment. Forum usergroups, permissions etc are far more complex in their requirements than Joomla website access requirements

It would have been just as simple, if not easier to create the ability to assign a forum user to a forum group and that group to the forum. Or better still add users directly to a forum.