One more request along these lines- I'd like to see an easy way to set the default groups for new users based on category (or something else). Let me explain.
I am using the latest stable version which I just bought last Friday (4.3.2 I think). I have a category called "biomed" which I want only visible to the biomed people. No problem, just give them a category URL and do a wwwthreads.pl?Cat=2. However, if someone just goes to wwwthreads.pl, they can see the biomed category. No problem, set security above 50 and it will be hidden. Now the problem is (unless I'm missing something) that I would have to have everyone first register a username with the default user_security=50, then I would have to change that for them so they could get into the biomed category, or pre-create all the usernames and passwords. Not optimal. I'm thinking I could alter the bit in adduser.pl where it sets the security level to check the $Cat (thanks for passing that in Scream!) and if it is 2, then set their security to 60 or something.
Should work okay, but I decided I'd look around and see if anyone else had asked about this and see that the group system is well underway. Great! I just want to pipe in for an easy way to set up the groups so I can have, say, an Apache-passworded area with a newuser.pl-style login form which passes some hidden variables (or whatever) to automatically put them into the groups I want when they create an account. This would help immensely with my less sophisticated users, many of whom will only be using one category of the forums.
If I'm not being clear tell me! I may go ahead with my minor hack (although it sounds like you're pretty much discarding the security-continuum system), but thought if I could persuade you to put this into the mainstream version then I wouldn't have to try to patch it every time there's an upgrade. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
