diff --git a/install/data/defaults.json b/install/data/defaults.json
index 717d4eae52..2d2ff5cbad 100644
--- a/install/data/defaults.json
+++ b/install/data/defaults.json
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@
     "allowProfileImageUploads": 1,
     "teaserPost": "last-reply",
     "allowPrivateGroups": 1,
-    "allowGroupCreation": 0,
     "unreadCutoff": 2,
     "bookmarkThreshold": 5,
     "autoDetectLang": 1,
diff --git a/src/install.js b/src/install.js
index 1397dac31a..f95795e822 100644
--- a/src/install.js
+++ b/src/install.js
@@ -388,7 +388,17 @@ function giveGlobalPrivileges(next) {
 		'search:users', 'search:tags', 'view:users', 'view:tags', 'view:groups',
 		'local:login',
 	];
-	privileges.global.give(defaultPrivileges, 'registered-users', next);
+	async.waterfall([
+		function (next) {
+			privileges.global.give(defaultPrivileges, 'registered-users', next);
+		},
+		function (next) {
+			privileges.global.give(['view:users', 'view:tags', 'view:groups'], 'guests', next);
+		},
+		function (next) {
+			privileges.global.give(['view:users', 'view:tags', 'view:groups'], 'spiders', next);
+		},
+	], next);
 }
 
 function createCategories(next) {