In phpBB, rights are mostly given to groups, forum by forum, with ready-made roles.
Groups
A forum has predefined groups: Guests, Registered users, Newly registered users, Global moderators, Administrators and Bots. In the Users and Groups tab, Manage groups lets you create others (team, active members…), add members to them and give them a group leader.
Forum permissions
- Permissions tab, Forum permissions: choose one or more forums.
- Choose the groups (or members) concerned.
- Give a role for each forum, for example “Standard Access”, “Read Only Access”, “No Access” or “On Moderation Queue” (posts published after approval).
- Apply the permissions.
Advanced permissions are set one by one to Yes, No or Never. “Never” overrides a “Yes” coming from another group: keep it for deliberate bans.
Check rights
Under Permission masks, the View forum-based permissions screen shows the actual rights of a member or group in a forum, once all their groups are taken into account.