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author | Tom Atkins <tatkins@gitlab.com> | 2019-08-14 14:42:57 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Atkins <tatkins@gitlab.com> | 2019-08-14 14:42:57 +0000 |
commit | ecee476abaef56c315b6f4320bece7895ba4d886 (patch) | |
tree | ef1b67add6dfaae1ae4440ee543247e80a26c1b1 | |
parent | 3cd40c4a807fef5f99c60853ab81f8729405e315 (diff) | |
parent | c1836c0f7e9d3dd2c1c3f180925af78cc6812463 (diff) | |
download | gitlab-ce-ecee476abaef56c315b6f4320bece7895ba4d886.tar.gz |
Merge branch 'docs-update-guest-user-doc' into 'master'
Docs add guest user clarification
See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!31805
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diff --git a/doc/user/permissions.md b/doc/user/permissions.md index 1d457099ebc..16684b9f72b 100644 --- a/doc/user/permissions.md +++ b/doc/user/permissions.md @@ -233,6 +233,16 @@ nested groups if you have membership in one of its parents. To learn more, read through the documentation on [subgroups memberships](group/subgroups/index.md#membership). +## Guest User + +Create a user and assign to a project with a role as `Guest` user, this user +will be considered as guest user by GitLab and will not take up the license. +There is no specific `Guest` role for newly created users. If this user will +be assigned a higher role to any of the projects and groups then this user will +take a license seat. If a user creates a project this user becomes a maintainer, +therefore, takes up a license seat as well, in order to prevent this you have +to go and edit user profile and mark the user as External. + ## External users permissions In cases where it is desired that a user has access only to some internal or |