From edd184d238f33cac465667a8f66e0e6e537ba6b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mac-key Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:52:28 +0100 Subject: Add guest user clarification --- doc/user/permissions.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/user') diff --git a/doc/user/permissions.md b/doc/user/permissions.md index 1d457099ebc..636c73004cd 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 + +There is no specific way to assign guest user role. Once a user is created and +assigned to a project with a role as `Guest` user, this user will be considered +a guest user by GitLab and will not take up the license. 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 -- cgit v1.2.3