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This happens because of the privacy restrictions of the organization inside Redmine space. Check that user has access ( is a member ) to the projects of an active project in the space and have has permission to see the issueissues.
In this case, all projects were private, visible only to members. Anonymos users and Non members had no permissions to view issues. As the user was a member of none project he couldn`t connect the space either.
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