Commit 2adc874f authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Add docs on group visibility

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1. Go to your project's **Settings**
1. Change "Visibility Level" to either Public, Internal or Private
## Visibility of groups
>**Note:**
[Starting with][3323] GitLab 8.6, the group visibility has changed and can be
configured the same way as projects. In previous versions, a group's page was
always visible to all users.
Like with projects, the visibility of a group can be set to dictate whether
anonymous users, all signed in users, or only explicit group members can view
it. The restriction for visibility levels on the application setting level also
applies to groups, so if that's set to internal, the explore page will be empty
for anonymous users. The group page now has a visibility level icon.
[3323]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3323
## Visibility of users
The public page of a user, located at `/u/username`, is always visible whether
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When visiting the public page of a user, you can only see the projects which
you are privileged to.
## Visibility of groups
The public page of a group, located at `/groups/groupname`, is always visible
to everyone.
Logged out users will be able to see the description and the avatar of the
group as well as all public projects belonging to that group.
## Restricting the use of public or internal projects
In the Admin area under **Settings** (`/admin/application_settings`), you can
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