Please help this newbie. I have 4 groups
1. Webmaster Group
2. Site Administrator Group
3. Members Group
4. Friends Group

I need the Site Administrator Group to maintain the Members Group and the Friends Group, but NOT the Webmaster group or Site Administrator Group. How can I grant access to only (2) of the (4) groups?
Thanks so much for any help.

welcome to Xoops..

All or nothing I am afraid. With Groups you can only grant "Groups" System Admin access or otherwise. If you grant this access to the members of a group they will have access to modify all the groups.

Thanks for the quick response. It seems rather loose, the System Admin group is for a department secretary's and my users love to click everywhere. This means she could completely deny me (webmaster) rights to my own site. I'll have to think about this some more.

Thanks again.

If an admin did this you can restore your admin rights via your database.

If you wish to know how to do this let me know. It is the individual with access to the database that has all the power really

This would be very good to know - how?

If an admin did this you can restore your admin rights via your database.
I would like to know. Please tell us!

Also note If anyone had system admin "group" permissions and then denied access, they deny access to the whole group including themselves.

Firstly access your XOOPS database through phpadmin or whatever program you use.

Go to the xoops_users table and click "browse". Note your "uid" number which will probably be "1"

You will see the "group ids" listed by browsing the xoops_groups table

Then go to the xoops_groups_users table and click "browse". Then find the row with your users id = "1". Notice the "groupid" column you should be in group "1" which is webmasters. So you are in group 1, and have a user id of "1".

If for some reason this is not "1" click "Edit" for this row and make yourself a "1" again for the groupid column.

Then go to the xoops_groups_permissions table and look for the "gpermname" column. Then look for all the "system_admin" rows.

You might find them in later pages. Edit each system_admin row and change the gperm_groupid to "1" which is the webmasters group.