Access to particular forums can be restricted to groups of users. Going one step further, forums can be made invisible to anyone outside the group.
Before we set up permissions, we will create a group of users who will have access to our Project Chimera forum. The moderator of this group will be our testuser
account, and that user will have the responsibility of approving membership to the group.
We return to the Forum Administration area, and click the Management link in the Group Admin section of the left-hand navigation pane:
We are presented with the Group Administration page, where we begin the process of configuring group permissions by selecting the group from the dropdown. At this point, we need to create a group, so we click the Create New Group button instead:
This brings us to a form for entering our group's details:
We provide the group name, a description, and also enter the username of a group moderator. (The Find a username button opens a dialog...