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March 8th, 2004 01:24 PM purplegreeality One of my fiends and I signed for message boards. We are both administrators on both boards. Our problem is that when we open the control panel on one board, we often end up in the other board's controls. So we have actually messed up both boards while trying to access something else. How do we avoid this kind of problem? Is there a way to put a seperate password on only one Forum? My board is for my church and I want the teens to have a place to post where their parents cannot see what they are posting about. Or do I need to make them a completely separate board? Thank you in advance for your help. I have only been doing this for a few days and really have no clue what I am doing. March 8th, 2004 01:28 PM Dave Well you will have to go to http://www.excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid=BOARDID and logout there, and then go to http://excoboard.com/exco/index.php?boardid=BOARDID and log out there. You could make all the teens authorized users and make the board you want only them to go in for mods/admins/Authorized users only. I think someone could make a script maybe though if that doesnt work [Edited by Dave] March 8th, 2004 01:33 PM Gary Always make sure you log out of the CP when finished and you will not run into this problem. March 8th, 2004 01:48 PM purplegreeality Prolly old people shouldn't try to learn all this stuff! When ever we click on save changes, the contol panel makes us log back in. Doesn't that mean that we were logged out? With the exception of a small part of the board, most of it will be for registered and approved user. Is that different than authorized user? I really think that I am not equipted to do this but I am giving it a try since I was asked. But I really am starting to think that it might be better to create a whole different board for them. the boys want a place to talk about the girls and the girls want to talk about the boys. And neither group wants the other to have access which brings me to this. . . aren't kids today supposed to be able to "speak" bianery (sp?) straight from the womb? March 8th, 2004 02:24 PM sdn A member group hack isn't possible without back-end access to the ExCo database(s) (a big security risk), as your member group isn't written into the text of most pages. That someone would have to be Peter or Markus. [Edited by sdn]