Commit ecee476a authored by Tom Atkins's avatar Tom Atkins

Merge branch 'docs-update-guest-user-doc' into 'master'

Docs add guest user clarification

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!31805
parents 3cd40c4a c1836c0f
......@@ -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
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