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Monday, November 17, 2025
1 change · 18.0
Resolved issues and error corrections
When a customer’s portal access is revoked, this change makes sure that account is no longer mistaken for a website’s default public user. This avoids exposing customer-related activity or assigning anonymous website actions to the wrong person, protecting privacy and reducing confusion.
Original PR description
**Steps to reproduce:** - Go to a Contact - Go to the actions dropdown menu of the record - Grant Portal Access - Revoke that Access - Create a new Website in the same Company that Portal Access was…
**Steps to reproduce:**
- Go to a Contact
- Go to the actions dropdown menu of the record
- Grant Portal Access
- Revoke that Access
- Create a new Website in the same Company that Portal Access was granted
- That Contact's user will be set as the Public User for the new Website
- New orders and other default public user behavior will be assigned to this user
- The user will be mentionned in non-logged interactions
**Issue:**
Archived portal user are set as public user when revoked, and the default public user of a website is set on create to the first public user it finds in `_get_public_user`:
```
public_users = self.env.ref('base.group_public').sudo().with_context(active_test=False).users
public_users_for_company = public_users.filtered(lambda user: user.company_id == self)
if public_users_for_company:
return public_users_for_company[0]
```
This seems to be an issue as such user can be reactivated or be assigned to some transactions it has not made (confidentiality issue).
**Fix:**
Not sure of the best way to fix this. We could ensure new website always creates a new public user, or find a better way to use by default the `self.env.ref('base.public_user')` (or its company-specific copies) for the company of the website during creation (or in `_get_public_user`).
For now the fix remove the public group on the revoked portal user, to still be able to reactivate it later on, without mistaking it for the default public user of a company.
Also we can't remove the `with_context(active_test=False)` as default public user always seems to be disabled.
related: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/commit/83e22fd0636748c4fe1058fb93adfad2623fc31b
opw-4760550
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Forward-Port-Of: odoo/odoo#233757