I did get this working.
I moved the nodebb working directory to /home/nodebb/nodebb and changed ownership of that to nodebb:nodebb, now it starts up on boot as the nodebb user just fine.
Thank you all very much for the help.
Please look at my category privileges settings -
But,
What gives ?
If it is not behaves what you've chosen the access category checkbox?
I want the registered-users and Guests to access the Category/Topics. I want registered-users to be able to reply to the Posts in this Category.
But I do not want them to be able to create new Topics in this Category.
So, I think the Settings are correct, no ?
Your settings are correct but if you are checking the category as an administrator user you will get all privileges, try testing with a regular user.
I AM testing as a 'Regular' user
I can confirm that the "Access Topics" privilege is not functioning correctly, so will need to look into that.
However, with "Create Topics" disabled, the "New Topic" button is not present, and the category itself is not present in the composer dropdown, so that privilege is working as intended.
Fixed in latest master
, the labels were swapped, so "Access" was actually controlling "Create", and vice versa.