YouTrack Cloud
 
2025.1

Manage the Guest User Account

Last modified: 12 June 2024

YouTrack lets you use a guest account to enable access for anonymous users.

The guest user account is banned by default in all YouTrack Cloud instances.

Even when enabled, the guest account isn't assigned any default roles. If you want to allow anonymous access to issues in YouTrack, you need to explicitly grant access rights to the guest account.

The default Issue Reader role is designed specifically to grant access to issues in YouTrack in read-only mode. This role lets users view issues and comments that do not have any visibility restrictions. It does not grant permission to edit issue attributes, post comments, or edit comments. To learn more about this role and its permissions, see Issue Reader.