# Traditional Permissions Setup vs Trust Levels?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/traditional-permissions-setup-vs-trust-levels/40739
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [2016年三月8日 11:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traditional-permissions-setup-vs-trust-levels/40739 "2016-03-08T11:33:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@BigSlacker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BigSlacker)
#### Post date: [2016年三月8日 11:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traditional-permissions-setup-vs-trust-levels/40739/1 "2016-03-08T11:33:24Z")
Simply put I want to be able to manage the trust levels myself. Especially who can edit wiki articles.
Is this even feasible in the “open” system?
I need something like:
**new users** - can post in application forum only
_once approved:_
**regular users** - can post in several areas + can be invited to SIG special interest groups on the forum
**execs** - basically just another SIG + some moderator access
**admins** - full moderators (usually a subset of the execs)
Doable? 😮
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### Author:  [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)
#### Post date: [2016年三月8日 12:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traditional-permissions-setup-vs-trust-levels/40739/2 "2016-03-08T12:09:25Z")
I think you can do most of that, just create those groups yourself and set settings per category.
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### Author:  [@BigSlacker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BigSlacker)
#### Post date: [2016年三月8日 12:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traditional-permissions-setup-vs-trust-levels/40739/3 "2016-03-08T12:34:34Z")
> [@Sander78](#):
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> just create those groups yourself
Meaning TL1, TL2, etc? Are you saying remove existing TL groups and re-create them and define them per my tastes? Sorry. I’ve only puttered around with the system very briefly. It’s rather sexy but I don’t have a deep understanding of it yet.
thanks for the reply! 👍
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### Author:  [@Sander78](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sander78)
#### Post date: [2016年三月8日 12:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traditional-permissions-setup-vs-trust-levels/40739/4 "2016-03-08T12:37:05Z")
No, you can’t remove those. But you can set their requirements high enough to never kick in. And then you create groups like `new users`, `regular users`, `execs`, `admins`.
Thing is, you’ll then have to put every single user manually in said groups. For now there is no way - apart from creating a plugin - to have users automatically join a group apart from the trust levels.
If you were to create a plugin, you might want to think about attaching batches to groups, anyone working on that yet?
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### Author:  [@BigSlacker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BigSlacker)
#### Post date: [2016年三月8日 12:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/traditional-permissions-setup-vs-trust-levels/40739/5 "2016-03-08T12:40:18Z")
Ok that sounds reasonable. What limits would you recommend?
I had planned on using external ruby scripts to auto-assign groups for the bulk of users. The groups can be based off titles in an external source and pulled via API. Should not be too difficult!