comment moderation

Unfortunately not, at this point. On the contrary — anyone who has View access (and the global post comments permission) can post comments.

Thank you for the pointer.

If I understand this correctly, then your approach is much broader. Forum Access deals with controlling access to forum content on a forum by forum basis, and moderation in the context of Forum Access means giving unrestricted access to the content of one forum to the users that are registered as moderators of that forum.

So, I'm happy if your new module fills a need, but it may not do what the original poster of this thread had in mind.

Well, you caught me there...

I mis-interpreted you OP — back to 'fixed.'

In current release of Forum Access, what ever are the permissions you give in the module, the replies permissions aren’t modified and thus can still only be set globally in Drupal.

Despite it wasn't in the mind of the original poster, I would be glad to know if it would possible to extend the module functionality to have synchronized term/role access control between the thread opening posts (nodes) and the replies (comments) like in any stand alone forum.

If not, maybe could you give some insight on what is the problem and where to further look for a solution. TIA.

It's not impossible, but it's quite difficult, because Drupal core doesn't offer a comment access control mechanism (hooks, etc.) like it does for nodes. There's no established way to tell core that a user should be able to edit a comment, for example, even though he does not have the administer comments permission.

I definitely intend to work on implementing this, but I can't make any promises time-wise.

Thank you very much for your reply and the provided information. Meanwhile there will be a «legal» solution, I found my own solution by patching the comment module with a private hook to the user_access('post comments') call.

Thank you again for your help.