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Topic: Password protect whole forum

Posted By: Benji
Subject: Password protect whole forum
Date Posted: 04 December 2003 at 5:02am

Is it possible for me to password protect the whole forum application so that when someone browses to my forum directory, they are prompted to enter a password before going any further?

Thanks

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Ben

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Posted By: Phat
Date Posted: 04 December 2003 at 5:39am

Password protect the directory.

Posted By: Benji
Date Posted: 04 December 2003 at 5:41am

is there nothing built into the forum to do this?

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Ben

Posted By: Phat
Date Posted: 04 December 2003 at 6:31am

You can only password seperate forums not the whole forum

Posted By: Benji
Date Posted: 04 December 2003 at 6:35am

thats a shame. I need to only allow certain members to register with the forums. I don't want just "anybody" to be able to register and read everything.

what I mean is that I want to give people a password to the forums, so they can then go and register, to stop general members of the public from registering themselves.

Hope that makes sense!!

Can you think of an easy way to implement this?

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Ben

Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 04 December 2003 at 7:28am

Don't allow the standard user to read anything after they registered. Create a group like approved users and promote the ones you want in having the access they need.

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Posted By: Benji
Date Posted: 04 December 2003 at 7:30am

Ah, good idea Michael, i'll try that

thanks!!

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Ben

Posted By: Bluefrog
Date Posted: 04 December 2003 at 7:51am

From what Phat mentioned above, I think he's talking about NT security. That is difficult to manage on a large scale, but very good. Michael's suggesstion is more practical.

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Posted By: Benji
Date Posted: 04 December 2003 at 8:00am

yeah, thanks for that!!

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Ben

Posted By: Semikolon
Date Posted: 04 December 2003 at 9:46am

yo can use a login script.. for example the webwiz thing and add the code on top of common.asp.. then you can give the password(s) to the people you want in youor forums