Redmine offers two states: you are an administrator, or you cannot touch user
accounts at all. That is a poor fit for a workspace where an office manager or
a team lead does the joiner and leaver paperwork — granting them administration
to approve one registration also grants them your settings, your projects, and
the ability to make themselves permanent. This adds the missing middle: a
standalone Users area that does the day-to-day work and nothing else.
On your own Redmine
Requirements
- Redmine 6.0 or newer (Rails 7.2, Ruby 3.1 or newer)
- PostgreSQL 14+, or MySQL 8.0+ / MariaDB 10.6+
- No additional gems, and no tables of its own
Install
cd /path/to/redmine
cp -r redminepro_user_admin plugins/
# no migrations — this feature owns no tables
# restart Redmine
Standalone behaviour
The seat display simply does not appear — there is no plan to report. Everything
else is identical, including the whole hard wall above. The User Admin module
hides its own checkbox from project settings whether or not anything else is
installed.
Update and remove
Copy the new directory over the old one and restart. To remove:
rm -rf plugins/redminepro_user_admin
# restart Redmine
Nothing is lost: every change it made was an ordinary change to a Redmine account.
Already on RedminePRO Cloud? It is installed and maintained for you: see the configuration guide.