I am having a similar problem to Jeff.
Current versions: Gallery 1.4.2 bridged to phpBB 2.0.18
Bridging authentication and cookies work fine, but my personal user in phpBB, which is an Administrator, and is recognized in CPG, does not get the CPG admin menu. I use login with my admin acct(authenticated by phpBB and successfully bridged to CPG) and then i DO get the admin menu. In my old setup with 2.0.17 and CPG 1.3.2, my personal user which was a phpBB admin, got the admin menu in CPG.
Keep in mind my admin status is granted by User Levels in phpBB and not User Groups.
Coppermine install:
http://www.backcountrypilot.org/gallery/Forum install:
http://www.backcountrypilot.org/forum/phpBB2Coppermine version: cpg1.4.2
Forum version: phpBB 2.0.18
Test user account: test / test
BridgeManager settings:
Forum URL:
http://www.backcountrypilot.org/forum/phpBB2Relative path to your BBS's config file: ../forum/phpBB2
Use post-based groups?: 0
Though this info won't get you far since I cannot give you a test user with admin rights in phpBB.
I think the Bridging Manager is a vast improvment over the mod-type bridge installation of previous versions, but for some reason it's just not importing the phpBB user levels as CPG groups properly. It used to.
Also, as an experiment I enabled "post-based groups" in CPG in an attempt to fix the situation. It imported my groups with only the first character of the group name, ie Test Group became "T".
There's really no way CPG that I see to make a phpBB user group or post based group a true CPG admin, that gets the actual CPG admin menu upon authentication.
Thanks. Good work guys.
Zane