I have set up amember/vbulletin, i have 2 products and have set up so users sign up for the products have access just to the boards i want in vbulletin. But im in the need for one more product and need to restrict access to the forum to one specific board regarding this product, is that possible? So its like this: Product 1 and 2: Access to forum 1 and 2 Product 3: Access only to forum 3. I also have some downloads available, and using the donwload manager in vbulletin( a add on), how can i set up protection for it?
I am looking to do the same thing, but with SMF. I am not sure if I need to setup some form of authorization levels in the forum and then give users who sign up via aMember the access privileges that they're signup allows.
In SMF I found that you can create user privileges and then assign them access to individual forums/boards. When you create the product in aMember you can assign that default user to their account. I haven't implemented it yet, but plan to next week. Hopefully, there are similar options with vBulletin.
In SMF you can create membergroups. Then on an individual board you can select which membergroups a member must belong to in order to access the board. This configuration is done from within SMF admin section not amember. Then with SMF plugin enabled, on per product basis you can specify the SMF membergroup that this product will allow access to into SMF. Then based on boards that are assigned to that membership group you will get access to them in SMF. You do this step from amember admin product setup. It is on purchase of product that Amember will modify the SMF database to set the membership groups that this member will belong to. Amember is done at this point, then when you access SMF forums the SMF script will enforce the permissions or boards displayed to member based on their membership group. If that membership becomes inactive then amember will modify SMF database to remove previous membership groups from SMF which would then restrict them from seeing the boards if the forum was installed into a non-protected folder. If the forum was installed into a protected folder then they wouldn't gain access to the forum in the first place without an active membership. If vbulletin has same concept of assigning users to groups (which I assume it does, it is very common) then it should work also. Group concept is very common security/authentication concept in providing a container object to group similiar user objects to have same permissions for accessing objects in this case boards. Its not unlike the chmod where you specify user,group,world permissions on a per file/folder basis. Bullentin board group objects operate in similiar fashion at the group level.