I need to lock down my space as a matter of urgency, so that nobody can view anything. How do I do this? Is this possible?

You may have to go into more detail I suspect to describe exactly what you need. To hide the forum from anonymous users check login required in site settings. However, note this will ruin SEO as search engines will have nothing to link to. Beyond that start removing groups from read rights in Cat…

I’ll come back to this asap, thank you!

You can log out all users and put the site in read only mode. But you can also just do a ./launcher stop app

[image] pfaffman: You can log out all users Probably worth adding how you can do that?

[image] pfaffman: log out all users i believe it’s ./launcher enter app rails r 'UserAuthToken.destroy_all' You may want to consider posting a banner or global notice before running the command to inform your users.

also this topic may help, depending on what your concerns are [image] What to do if your Discourse is compromised Self-Hosting We’ve recently had two reports of Discourse sites that were compromised, likely due to weak admin account passwords. So we’d like to …

[image] merefield: [image] pfaffman: You can log out all users Probably worth adding how you can do that? Well, yeah, if I knew how! :rofl: Thanks, @Lilly !

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 18, 2025, 10:29am 8

Well, yeah, if I knew how! Thanks, @Lilly!

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