Question User/moderator rights

In fact, here's the way we worked since 5 years in another forum brand/joomla but we start Kunena few weeks ago and I'm trying to find a solution.

Registered = Normal Members
Author = Paid Members of the association
Moderators = 10 Authors which in fact are also members of the Association Comittee

All the forums are available for Registered and +.

5 Forums are reserved for the moderators (Direction Comittee) which are all around the country and we take all the decisions, projet discussions in these "private" forums. I've been able to restrict the posting/responding to only Moderators but all authors have unfortunately access to it.

My solution in fact, would be, like in the past on Joomla 1.0 to change the rights of the "Editor" to don't be able to Edit all items in joomla frontpage and I could then change all my moderators to "Editor" Position which will automatically create "private forums" with no risk of items edition.

Do you see a little bit more what I mean? In the pas we could change the acl file just by removing the editor access on edition and it was enough, now I don't know how this is fixed.

For information I'm using without any issue : Joomla 1.5.10 with CB 1.2 and Kunena 1.0.8.

Thanks again and hope you understood a little bit more the way we use to work...

I've finally solved my problem by editing the file authorization.php (Joomla) by only changing the line 193 of editor from edition of content "All" to "Own" and now I'm able to use Registered, Author and Editor for "VIP" Members.

Thanks again.

That's an interesting solution, audisport. If you have no other use for the Joomla user-type "editor" then I suppose that's one way out of the pickle. On the other hand, it may create a dependency that will come back to haunt you in other ways. That's why I would leave well enough alone.

Perhaps the Kunena developers will review this discussion and may provide a finer granularity of security over the forum access in the future.

While I understand what you mean - and I mean no disrespect, but I had a fairly good comprehension of your requirement from the start - I still feel it's a good strategy to completely divorce exclusive/executive material from a website that's accessed by "ordinary" members. "Keep the boardroom material to the boardroom." If, however, the convenience of co-locating the executive discussions outweighs the potential for information leaks and the "ordinary" members don't object to being excluded from them, then congratulations on finding a viable workaround.

Cheers