need help with access rights

[GMTalk]

ok here is my delema

I have a ton of mods. And i have to restrict one area on my site to only the select few that need access. This is going to be done through access masks.

I have made the forum private. So that reg users and guest can not see it. My question is this. How can i assign the rights of NO to one forum in the list of 400 in the access masks page to affect everyone. Including admins and mods in one fatal swoop?

I have to only grant rights to 10 people and only 1 is an admin me and one is a moderator. I cannot let the other mods or admins access to this per contract with the company. i dont want to go through 80 moderators. it would take too long.

If there is a querie that i can run please let me know.

Thanks..

[GMTalk]

any idea?

[tubedogg]

User Groups > Modify Forums > find the forum then under it for each group click [edit] then set Can View Board to No. Do this for every group.

Then manually assign permissions to each user that is allowed to see the forum.

[GMTalk]

I have done the editing of the admins and the moderators and they all still have access to the area. It is requiring me to assign the moderators and admins as NO in the access masks lists.