Automatically granting permissions to new members?

[osioke (Osioke Itseuwa)]

Yes there is! You just have to give the group the permissions you want using the Category Security settings. This post explains this in detail:

Understanding groups and category permissions (security settings)

See this video tutorial for an example of how to use these features: Create a private category with limited access for a certain group The Security tab on the category edit page is used to control both the visibility of categories and what users can do in a category. This is done by defining an access list of groups that associate a group name with an access level. The default permission for a new category is that the group everyone can Create/Reply/See. This means that a…