Privacy: Disable/Hide complete list of user

[Quadrocompile]

Description:

We'd like to host RC for our organization. However, there are privacy concerns regarding the feature that allows user to see the list of all user in the system and the possibility to DM them. We are able to hide the user list with the embedded-layout. However, when using the app, the user list feature is always enabled.

Steps to reproduce:

Persistent behavior

Expected behavior:

Switch to disable the complete user list in order to appease 'privacy fanatics'.

Suggested workaround / Request

The easiest solution that comes to my mind would be to alter the query that fills the list in such a way, that the server would only return an empty record. That would be a crude workaround but nevertheless it would work well in our scenario.

Could you please advise if such workaround would interfere with the rest of the application. And if not: could you please provide me insight, which api hook is used to query the complete user list, in order to alter the servers response to never return any user at all.

Actual behavior:

Currently, there is a list of all users signed up on the server. This can be hidden when using the embedded mode, however, it is always visible to users using the app.

Server Setup Information:

• Version of Rocket.Chat Server: 3.5.3
• Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04
• Deployment Method: snap
• Number of Running Instances: 1
• DB Replicaset Oplog: -
• NodeJS Version: 12.16.1
• MongoDB Version: 4.0

Client Setup Information

Any

Additional context

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Relevant logs:

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Best regards

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[pierreozoux]

We'd like to at least be able to hide the email.

[ImaCrea]

Hello, any news around here maybe? Hiding emails would already be great.

[pierreozoux]

Actually @ImaCrea maybe we see emails because we are admin. I didnt consider this, I'll try again when in front of a laptop.

[johncrisp]

Not sure you can see emails unless you are admin?

Please confirm this?

[johncrisp]

(and please test on 3.16 !!)

[pierreozoux]

Yes, I confirm that if you are not admin, you don't see emails. (Except if the username is the email, but well, we can't do much on that case :) )

[2old4it]

Is there any progress on this? We want to facilitate several teams/customers using RC but we (and or customers) don't want the option that everybody can invite everybody to a channel/discussion.

• Version of Rocket.Chat Server: 4.2.2

[gstlouisgit]

I suppose there is no action to have this ability. I hope someone picks this up as it would be a great security feature for this app

[avenger2005]

uncheck the “view outside room” in the Permissions setting

[bndrgroup]

uncheck the “view outside room” in the Permissions setting

Seems to do the trick! Thanks