User Permissions To Read Only?

DBG1 · Post by **DBG1** » Mon May 10, 2021 10:25 am

Just wondering if there is a way to set an individual user's permissions to "read only" somehow so that they can still log in, but they not able to post at all in any forum?

Thanks...

david63 · Post by **david63** » Mon May 10, 2021 10:37 am

There is no quick way to do it.

I would suggest that you create a new group and then set the group forum role to read only for the forums that you want to be read only. Then make that group the user's default group

DBG1 · Post by **DBG1** » Mon May 10, 2021 11:19 am

Thanks. I just did that by creating a new group. It did take some time as you mentioned it would to set all the forum permissions for the group to read only, but it worked. I also set most of the regular group permissions to "never" as well.

By settings all of the group forum permissions to "never" (except for the the actions which I just set to "no") I don't think I need to make the group the user's default group, do I? "Never" will override all other group permissions anyway I think?

Thanks again.

Post by **stevemaury** » Mon May 10, 2021 1:37 pm

The user just needs to be in the group. The only effect of making a group a user's default is that they will get the group color and avatar, if any. That's it.

Post by **thecoalman** » Mon May 10, 2021 2:33 pm

DBG1 wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 11:19 am By settings all of the group forum permissions to "never" (except for the the actions which I just set to "no") I don't think I need to make the group the user's default group, do I? "Never" will override all other group permissions anyway I think?

The no permission would be better defined as not set but can be elsewhere. Yes permissions are stacked and what that means is if a user belongs to multiple groups their yes permissions are the aggregate of "yes" for all the groups. For example everyone is member of the registered users groups so setting a custom group to no will not override a yes in registered user group.

The only way to override yes is with never. Never is always never.

DBG1 · Post by **DBG1** » Tue May 11, 2021 5:55 am

Thank you for al the clarifications above. All is clear now.

One last question please when using "NEVER" permissions in some of the groups that the user is a member of and not the others that the user is in:

Is it necessary for the group containing the "NEVER" permissions to be made the group default for the member in order for the "NEVER" permissions to override everything else?

Or does the group default setting not play a role in any of the use of permissions?

Thank you.

Post by **stevemaury** » Tue May 11, 2021 6:08 am

stevemaury wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 1:37 pm The user just needs to be in the group. The only effect of making a group a user's default is that they will get the group color and avatar, if any. That's it.

DBG1 · Post by **DBG1** » Tue May 11, 2021 6:12 am

Got it. Thanks. Sorry, I missed that. I read it, but still missed it somehow.