# Bulk invite grant staff access **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug\ **Created:** [May 27, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-invite-grant-staff-access/88553 "2018-05-27T23:40:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 11:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-invite-grant-staff-access/88553/5 "2018-05-28T11:55:15Z")
This issue was happening because of special category security permissions for `staff` group. We add invited user to restricted group when they are invited to a group restricted category topic by staff or group owner. But in this case adding invited user to an automatic group was a legitimate bug. Even though the invited user was getting removed from automatic groups after every 12 hours via `EnsureDbConsistency` job but this should not be happening in the first place. Also note that this issue was not specific to bulk invite feature. It was also happening when inviting user to a topic (using “Invite” button at the bottom of the topic). Now fixed via: [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c8bc942333f5cb0920a18d98b9f8b1baab2c9749](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c8bc942333f5cb0920a18d98b9f8b1baab2c9749) Thanks a lot for reporting this issue and providing necessary information for debugging @husseinhilmi. 👍 --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bulk-invite-grant-staff-access/88553)._