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MattSharp
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phpBB: Can you give users special access to forums?

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I thought that with vBulletin you could like give certain users special access without making them moderators? Or if you make them a Moderator and don't assign them to any forums do they have any power? I want some users to be able to read the staff only forum but not have any moderating powers....
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Are you talking about vbulletin or phpbb?

If you are talking about phpbb I believe so. I think what you have to do is put the people you want to have access in a usergroup. You can then set the permission on said thread to private hidden. Then you can allow access by the usergroup to that particular forum (in group permissions). As far as I can make out this works. There will be one moderator for the group and everyone else will just be bog standard users with the normal access permissions you have set. The staff only forum will be hidden from everyone who isn't logged in as a member of the usergroup you set. There might be an easier way of doing this but I find this works.
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