Comment 3 for bug 1257953

To provide some context, these are issues that were found while getting ready to deploy elasticsearch to mahara.org itself.

Actually, whether or not to be able to perform search while you're not logged in, should probably be a config setting. For most sites that represent educational institutions, it would probably be preferred that you can't search unless you can log in.

But for sites like mahara.org, which are about members of the public sharing with other members of the public, it's essential.