Yep, understood Diz - what I listed above will do that, in conjunction with the group being assigned at registration.
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How hard would it be to set forum permissions at registration?
Almost impossible without a radical, major overhaul of the whole user/forum/block/module system.
Currently best done by groups, per my previous post.
You can define a range of groups for different permutations of view, read, post, reply etc. and that will give you some options to play with.
User level controls are via the users table, like allow avatar and allow pm, but they are global. You could add extra user controls like can_post, allow_sig etc. but they would apply to all forums - that's a whole different ball game and it's a core table that I prefer to avoid, for now.
Nano has already done some groundwork on such a radical overhaul of the whole permissions system but it is a massive task.