Drupal 7.22, LoginToboggan 7.x-1.3

On Configuration -> LoginToboggan, at the dropdown menus: Non-authenticated role and Delete unvalidated users after, there is the following advise in bold:

WARNING: changing this setting after initial site setup can cause undesirable results, including unintended deletion of users -- change with extreme caution!

Is it again valid? Or is there a solution/patch?

I need to change the Non-authenticated role, but I cannot risk the stability of the platform nor to loose the users.

Thanks

Comments

stevecowie’s picture

stevecowie CreditAttribution: stevecowie commented

The warning is valid and there is no patch because this is how it works by design. However, provided you are careful, you can probably change the role. I suggest you take a database backup and on a local version of your site, create a new non-authenticated role and check how it works. Mostly what this warning is for, is to make sure administrators don't do something silly like set an important role as non-authenticated: e.g. if you have a role called 'member' on your site with lots of users having that role, and then you make that role into the non-authenticated one, you might start losing users that you want to keep.

HyperD’s picture

HyperD CreditAttribution: HyperD commented

Ah ok.
I just created a role called "Limbo" where users had partial permissions, and now, I don't need it any longer, and I wanted to switch it into Authenticated user ... I want be sure that if I select this role instead of "Limbo" I don't loos users ...
however, I will not remove roles ... i just need to switch it.