password only

[redskins_43]

Hello everyone. I am within a week of purchasing vB. I wondered if y'all can help.

My members will be very sensitive to information that leaks. I wanted to segment the members to their own constituency so I wanted to see if there was any level of password protection other than me allowing/disallowing the member to view or log into the certain forum.

Does this make sense? I want to provide the ultimate way to have a member feel safe with posting something and other members of the overall forum site, not being able to get into his particular discussion area.

I would provide more detail on what I am doing, but it is confidential at this point. Until I launch!

And many thanks to Steve Machol for helping me over the course of the last many months!

:)

[SaintDog]

Passwords are MD5'ed, which are basically uncrackable, meaning their passwords are safe and sound :) (admins and mods can not even view the passwords).

- SaintDog

[redskins_43]

Thank you. I meant actually, is there anyway to protect the forum area for these particular members itself? Or would I have to be completing this under the admin for each member until vB3?

J

[SaintDog]

vBulletin does not have password protected forums by default, although I do believe there is a hack over at vBulletin.org that will do just that (although, if you can wait, I believe vB3 will have PP Forums :)).

- SaintDog

[redskins_43]

thanks!!

:)

[SaintDog]

No problem :).

- SaintDog

[ideaspin]

can you point me at the hack that enables a vbulletin forum to be protected with a single password? I really want to add this to our boards (discuss.snapstream.com)....

Thanks,
Rakesh

[Steve Machol]

You need to ask at vbulletin.org. By the way, this feature will be included with vB3.

[ideaspin]

when is vbulletin3 due to be released?

[Steve Machol]

There is no esitmated release date yet.