BigBlueButton – Join new room without password

hello again…

the BigBlueButton Permission Settings table are global settings or? i need 2 different permissons, 1 for the password protectet rooms and 1 for the free rooms.

Hi Manollo,

No, that use case is not covered. The password in BBB is really a key that indicates of the roles that users are going to have in the session they join. The “passwords” are established to BBB when the meeting is created.(They are passed as parameters when executing the action create). If no password is sent to BBB, a pair of random “passwords” is assigned anyways.

So, even for registered users and regardless of the permission assigned to the role the user has, when the user joins that password is taken from the database, this is why they are stored.

What you could do is to assign a BBB role to the WP anonymous role in the permissions, but that would make them go to all the meetings (with no exception) directly without password with BBB role assigned.

If you are comfortable making changes to the code you could add a parameter password to the shortcode and use it to override the password in the form for joining, but either way you would need to use the password assigned to the meeting through the configuration panel.

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