[Forum] setting read-only permissions

[timcullis]

I'm setting up a 4.1 forum at http://www.morocco-knowledgebase.net that has one section that is intended to be open access with various sub forums, and another section that it intended to be a reference area with various sub forums that only I can update. For example

Open sections forum (not acting as forum, only a header)
- General forum
- Trip reports forum

Reference section forum (not acting as forum, only a header)
- Information sources forum
- Packing and planning forum

I was rather hoping the subforums would inherit the attributes of the parent forum but this seems not to be the case. I also tried setting 'forum is open' to no, but this shut me out as well even though I'm logged on as administrator.

I could set the attributes through forum permissions but I have 20 or so forums to set and there's 10 lots of users per forum, so that's 200 edits. Wow.

There must be an easier way... please??

[timcullis]

Ah... Just found 'permission duplication tools'. So I've now set the permissions for one of the read-only forums and copied them over to the others.

Panic over.
(Unless that wasn't the right way to do it!)