Comments for New Commenters Being Given Author Permissions

New Commenters Being Given Author Permissions

2008-08-13T19:17:59Z

Must I disable all community features to prevent new users from being given author permission? Since I upgraded any new people who register to comment are also being added as authors and can login and create new entries. I can't figure out where to turn this off.

Thanks, Michelle

Comment from Michelle Jones on 2008-08-13

2008-08-13T19:36:42Z

Never mind it seems to have been a bug or something. It did it for two users and then stopped.

Comment from dug on 2008-08-20

2008-08-20T10:15:04Z

Hi Michelle,

Not sure if this is relevant but Maarten just explained the following to me.

The "role" assigned to users who sign up using the "register" link is controlled by the empty user "(newly created user)". Whatever permissions are assigned to this user will be assigned to new users created by the system.

Comment from Einar on 2008-10-08

2008-10-08T15:28:36Z

I have no "(newly created user)" in my userlist.
Where do I find it?

Comment from Mike T on 2008-10-08

2008-10-08T17:49:12Z

In your blog view, Manage->Users and then click "add users to blog" and you will see it at the top of the list.

Comment from oliverh on 2008-11-17

2008-11-17T15:48:12Z

I'm also experiencing this problem...

I think I temporarily enabled Author for new users but have since reset this back to just Commenter...but new users still get Author permissions!

Control Panel says Commenter but actually gives Author - is there a re-start needed somewhere? Does anyone have any advice on this?

Thanks.