"Share this pad" Read-only on/off is ignored: guests do not have editing rights

[marylou]

Hello everyone,

I installed Etherpad today. When I opened it, I was logged in automatically, created a document, guests were able to join but without editing rights.

So I followed the instructions and changed /app/data/settings.json:

{
  "requireAuthentication": false,
  
  "users": {
    "admin": {
      // 1) "password" can be replaced with "hash" if you install ep_hash_auth
      // 2) please note that if password is null, the user will not be created
      "password": "changeme1",
      "is_admin": true
    },
    "user": {
      // 1) "password" can be replaced with "hash" if you install ep_hash_auth
      // 2) please note that if password is null, the user will not be created
      "password": "changeme1",
      "is_admin": false
    }
  }
}

Unfortunately, it did not change a thing.

Guests are not able to edit the document.

[nebulon]

I can confirm the read-only toggle really doesn't change anything. Not sure where the bug lies, etherpad develoment has picked up recently again, so many things had changed/broken/fixed. Maybe just a bug or it requires some very specific settings.