Permission for Forum access, assign access based on role

For D6 we have to live with the contrib solutions like http://drupal.org/project/forum_access. Feature requests have to be against D8 by now. I don't know how D7 handles forum access so this might already be obsolete for future releases.

Setting to D7 so that folks see it in the queue...

Still think that this task for contrib, because setting access to forum (taxonomy field) is useless if forum nodes are accessible without forum access dependency

Let's allow a bot to test a patch. But I strongly disagree that core forum have additional access

patch attached addressing all of the above issues :)

This patch just adds additional access for /forum/* but still does not care about content that has forum field attached.

If this patch will introduce node access for nodes that posted to forum so we had a BIG confusion|collision within node access! Users could have 'access content' permission but 'access forum' should override this. So better off this to contrib

Also there will be performance degradation of node access will be introduced in core.

fair enough!