[drupal-support] Using Node Privacy By Role in Forums

[Earl Miles]

Dennis Bennett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a new Drupal site and want to create a forum that only certain 
> members can access, with the rest of the forums accessible by all 
> authenticated members. I've seen the Node Privacy by Role module 
> (http://drupal.org/project/node_privacy_byrole) used for this, but I'm 
> having a heck of  a time figuring out how to do it on our site. We've 
> already successfully installed and enabled the module in 
> ?q=admin/settings/node_privacy_byrole. However, we're not able to 
> determine how to actually restrict access to a particular node (the 
> private forum) by role.
> 
> Could someone please post a procedure for doing so?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Dennis
> 

You actually want taxonomy_access for this, which will allow you to restrict 
access to the entire category.