[NEW] Permissions setting to deny low-privilege users access to the user autocomplete list

[alankessler]

@RocketChat/core

Right now there is no way to hide the user list from low-permission users. This should allow the administrator to disable the autocomplete feature.

[graywolf336]

What happens to the user list on the side panel?

[alankessler]

@graywolf336 Probably what you expected. The guest user appears online, but all other users in the channel appear offline to the guest.

[alankessler]

But it does fix the problem I'm concerned about:

as guest:

as admin:

[Hudell]

I wonder why was this never merged?

@alankessler do you mind fixing the conflicts on the PR?

[alankessler]

I wonder why was this never merged?

@alankessler do you mind fixing the conflicts on the PR?

I think this is fixed.

[rodrigok]

We are still missing a permission to list the members of rooms, I think we should add this new permission.

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