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Werk #18067: Remove ancient config options: users, admin_users, guest_users and default_user_role

Component Setup
Title Remove ancient config options: users, admin_users, guest_users and default_user_role
Date Aug 27, 2025
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
2.5.0b1
Not yet released
Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk Cloud (CCE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

The UIs configuration options users, admin_users, guest_users and default_user_role are removed with this change. They were left overs from the very early days of the Checkmk UI. Todays environments, which are typically configured through the Setup UI or the REST API, should not make use of these configuration options as they can not be configured this way.

In case you should have set such configuration options in your site, please remove the options from your configuration. The roles of users are nowadays configured through the user configuration and the default roles are set through the default_user_profile option.

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