Subscriptions and Permissions

[RagingPenguin]

I have just about fully set up my forum, but I'm stuck on the subscriptions and permissions settings.

The question is this: How should I set my usergroups permissions before I add a subscription to the forums I want to protect.

It's not as simply as deny initially and access after. For all protected forums, whether by a subscription or the regular permission system I have all masks set so that all users can at least see that the forum is there, but can't access anything threads, or anything else.

Solution?

[RagingPenguin]

For the record, I think I got it. I set the masks on the current groups to "View Forum" only, which makes it show up on the index, and they can nav into it, but not any threads. I then made a usergroup just for the subscription with all appropriate rights and set the subscription to add the user to that group.