From b36697315136f74db7c460ffdee92be3430d06a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Hodgson <matthew@matrix.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:39:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] let anyone create aliases - fixes
 https://github.com/vector-im/vector-web/issues/1585

---
 src/components/views/rooms/RoomSettings.js | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/components/views/rooms/RoomSettings.js b/src/components/views/rooms/RoomSettings.js
index bcf1d092311..b268c128e66 100644
--- a/src/components/views/rooms/RoomSettings.js
+++ b/src/components/views/rooms/RoomSettings.js
@@ -773,7 +773,10 @@ module.exports = React.createClass({
                 <AliasSettings ref="alias_settings"
                     roomId={this.props.room.roomId}
                     canSetCanonicalAlias={ roomState.mayClientSendStateEvent("m.room.canonical_alias", cli) }
-                    canSetAliases={ roomState.mayClientSendStateEvent("m.room.aliases", cli) }
+                    canSetAliases={
+                        true 
+                        /* Originally, we arbitrarily restricted creating aliases to room admins: roomState.mayClientSendStateEvent("m.room.aliases", cli) */
+                    }
                     canonicalAliasEvent={this.props.room.currentState.getStateEvents('m.room.canonical_alias', '')}
                     aliasEvents={this.props.room.currentState.getStateEvents('m.room.aliases')} />