[support] Forums permission: can anonymous users view without write privileges

[Steve Hays]

Earnie,

I have installed only modules that have full Drupal 6 recommendation.

The permissions for Taxonomy are very limited: merely "administer"--so  
I don't want to dispense that one very widely.
For Forum there are more options, but there is no "access content."   
The lowest is "create new forum topic." I don't really want to give  
that permission to anonymous users, but when I check it, the forums- 
list page appears for them.  For now I've decided to control access  
via menus.  I simply won't post a link to the "node/add/0" page.  If  
someone knows enough about Drupal to type that in, they can create a  
new topic without logging in, but I guess I'll have to live with that  
possibility for now.

Steve

On Jul 23, 2008, at 10:03 AM, Earnie Boyd wrote:

> Quoting Steve Hays <hays at ohio.edu>:
>
>> Earnie,
>>
>> I do have the Taxonomy module installed.
>>
>> I spent a while looking for "access modules," but I couldn't find  
>> any--
>> at least any that were filtered for 6.  Perhaps I didn't know what I
>> was looking for.  *Should* I have any access modules installed?  Is
>> there one that would solve the problem?  I'm think it really is a
>> permissions problem--unless, of course, other people in D6 can access
>> the "forums/" page (the auto-generated index of fora) while in
>> anonymous user role.
>>
>
> My point in asking about access modules was to determine if a contrib
> module might be the issue.  I don't know how many users are actually
> using D6 yet, there are some major modules that haven't published a
> production ready version yet.  What about the user access permissions
> for Taxonomy and Forum modules?  Are they set for access by Anonymous
> Users?
>
> Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
> -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
>
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