I have a list of 80 emails and would like to add all those users to a private forum..

Whats the best way for me to go about this?

Emails do not matter when setting up this option. You need to have all users registered in a forums system first.

and if 80 registered people are in the system is there any automatic way to add all their id's to the system?

Sorry, I didn't understand last question.

If all registered users should have access to this private forum yo could use $regUsrForums

_Marco

I have several associates I would like to add to the forum myself without going through the registration process, is this possible?

Admin can register users manually in miniBB, but it uses the same registration form. Just log-in as admin and point your browser to index.php?action=registernew of your forums.

You can also use phpMyAdmin or other similar tool to insert mySQL records directly.

Thank you, I will look into both.

I tried adding a user and got this:
Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 66

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 67

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Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 67

Warning: fopen(./shared_files/pmailh/6/inbox.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 76

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 77

Warning: unlink(./shared_files/pmailh/6/inbox.php) [function.unlink]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 34

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Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 38

Warning: include(./shared_files/pmailh/6/inbox.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_send.php on line 143

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Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening './shared_files/pmailh/6/inbox.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_send.php on line 143

Warning: unlink(./shared_files/pmailh/6/inbox.php) [function.unlink]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 34

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Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 38

Warning: fopen(./shared_files/pmailh/6/inbox/198240038748de811eaee54209448028.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 143

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 66

Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 67

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Warning: fopen(./shared_files/pmailh/6/settings.php) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 76

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Warning: unlink(./shared_files/pmailh/6/settings.php) [function.unlink]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 34

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Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 38

Warning: unlink(./shared_files/pmailh/6/settings.php) [function.unlink]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 34

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Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in /home2/asolarh2/public_html/forum/addon_pmail_funcfl.php on line 38

When you insert directly via phpmyadmin, how does one deal with the password field?

These errors are related to Private Messaging add-on which is set in flat-files mode.

For inexperienced users we always recommend to set this add-on in mySQL mode only. This can be done modifying addon_pmail_options.php - setting

$pmMysql=TRUE;

And there should be a file in the forums folder called addon_pmail_funcdb.php.

In other case, I don't understand how you are trying to "add a user" because it's just a regular registration process... you don't need to rack phpMyAdmin.