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

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Steve Hays <hays at ohio.edu>:

> 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.
>

I suggest you open a bug issue for it.

Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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