New users are automatically subscribed to the main blog

[conner_bw]

Prerequisites:

• Install WordPress 3.6 Multi-Site
• Enable "Both sites and user accounts can be registered."
• Logout

Steps to reproduce:

• As a new user, sign up for a new site (Aka: Gimme a site!)
• Successfully go through the process

Expected:

• User is not a Subscriber to main blog, rather she an Admin to her own blog.

Actual:

• User is a Subscriber to main blog, and and Admin to her own blog.

Extra:

"Expected" was happening in 3.4, and 3.5.

This issue started happened when we upgraded to 3.6

I did a trace and add_action( 'wpmu_activate_user', 'add_new_user_to_blog', 10, 3 ); and
add_new_user_to_blog() never gets called. This is where the desired action happens.

Thank you for your consderation

[SergeyBiryukov]

Might be related to [23535] (#15173).

[duck_]

I traced this to [23307] for #15627. AFAICT that change is invalid since delete_user_option() will add $wpdb->prefix by default, so we went from deleting wp_capabilities to wp_wp_capabilities (assuming the default prefix).

I think we should revert and re-open that ticket. It seems to me that the problem described in #15627 is about using wp_insert_user() and the capabilities removal in wpmu_create_user() was working okay.

[nacin]

In 25183:

Revert [23307] so new users in multisite are not automatically subscribers on the main site.

props duck_.
fixes #25166 for trunk.
see #15627.

[nacin]

In 25184:

Revert [23307] so new users in multisite are not automatically subscribers on the main site.

Merges [25183] to the 3.6 branch.

props duck_.
fixes #25166.
see #15627.