Hello,
I am the administrator of an Italian community, the "Night Sun Network". We own an IPB perpetual license and run a 2.1.5 IPB installation.

I post here because we noticed the lack of an important feature: the possibility to set a group to override forums passwords.
Actually when an admin enters a password protected forum, he is asked to insert the password. It's non-sense protection, because the admin can't remember all the passwords of the protected forums, but he can look them into the admin control panel.
So it is only a waste of time, because everytime the admin has to join a private forum, he has to open the admin cp, find the forum and check the password.

So, why don't insert into the user groups management the possibility to set the group to skip/override the passwords ?
My english is not very good, so i post a photoshop edited image to show you what i mean:



With this feature a lot of administrators and global moderators around the world would save a lot of time and praise you.

Thank you

Antares88

Why don't you just make only certain groups be able to view the forum in question?

Because passwords are fun

Maybe they want to allow the "public" to know that it exists and see the stats of the forum, but not allow access unless they have a password.

I also think this is a good idea.

Maybe you should take this.

But I aggree, that should be software default.

UP...

i need this function too

Admins sholud can access everywhere without restrictions (group restrictions or password restriction) otherwise how they can manage their boards??