I need only members to be able to access the forums. I have researched this to death and from what I can tell, I need to have at least three modules to achieve this.

1. Path access to block access to the core forum landing page at /forum (as it is neither a node, entity nor view)

2. Forum Access module to block the top level forum containers

3. And Taxonomy Access or something like Node View Permissions to block access to the forum topics posts themselves.

Are you kidding me??? I need three permission modules just to stop anonymous users from looking and using the forums. Am I missing something here?

I need only members to be able to access the forums. I have researched this to death and from what I can tell, I need to have at least three modules to achieve this.

1. Path access to block access to the core forum landing page at /forum (as it is not a node, entity nor view)

2. Forum Access module to block the top level forum containers

3. And Taxonomy Access or something like Node View Permissions to block access to the forum topics posts themselves.

Are you kidding me??? I need three permission modules just to stop anonymous users from looking and using the forums. Am I missing something here?