• Registered: 2005-06-28
  • Posts: 5

Topic: Guests can post even if the permission is set to "no"

Hi,

PunBB 1.2.12 is installed on my server.
Since a month, my forum receives a lot of spam and I just find out why:
Normally guests shouldn't be able to post or reply (screenshot: http://fabio.chelly.free.fr/guest.png).

But I tried to post while I'm not connected and it works.

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Re: Guests can post even if the permission is set to "no"

And the per-forum permissions aren't set to allow guests to post?

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3 Reply by fabiochelly (edited by fabiochelly 2006-09-08 17:46)

  • Registered: 2005-06-28
  • Posts: 5

Re: Guests can post even if the permission is set to "no"

No, they are all set to default.

My forum is here:
http://chelly.net/punbb/

4 Reply by Paul

  • Paul
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  • From: Wales, UK.
  • Registered: 2003-08-13
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Re: Guests can post even if the permission is set to "no"

Is this a conversion from another forum or a clean install?

In any case make sure there's a user in your database with id = 1 and group_id = 3 (which is the guest user).

  • Registered: 2005-06-28
  • Posts: 5

Re: Guests can post even if the permission is set to "no"

Thank you, you have solved my problem. My forum has been created by converting a phpbb forum and the Guest group_id was 4, not 3.

I changed the group_id and now it works fine.