Hi folks, I’ve searched high and low but couldn’t find anyone with a similar issue to this. I’m wondering if anyone has experienced their admin status repeatedly being revoked? This has happened a few times to one of our admins and there doesn’t seem to be any reason for it (i.e nobody has removed …

Granting/revoking admin privileges should be logged if it wasn’t for plugins. If not, maybe you should check if the sysadmin is playing a prank.

If you could share what plugins you have installed, that could be useful. For instance, configuring the DiscourseConnect plugin in a certain way may result in removal of certain groups (see here ).

Hi Linca, thank you - I hadn’t thought to look in the log. Just had a look and there is nothing in the log to suggest the admin status has been revoked by anyone else. The log book shows that: 17 hours ago - Admin1 was making changes to the platform They have then logged on again this morning an…

Thank you Natalie, Plugins that have been installed are: discourse-calendar discourse-foirmatting-toolbar discourse-gamification discourse-saml discourse-topic-voting docker_manager

[image] Steven: discourse-saml Depending on how SAML is set up it may be your culprit. README.md?plain=1 49afe4d6c ### Group sync - `DISCOURSE_SAML_SYNC_GROUPS`: Sync groups. Defaults to false. - `DISCOURSE_SAML_GROUPS_ATTR…

Admin status repeatedly revoked

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squarecranium (Steven) May 17, 2023, 9:15am 5

Thank you Natalie, Plugins that have been installed are:

discourse-calendar
discourse-foirmatting-toolbar
discourse-gamification
discourse-saml
discourse-topic-voting
docker_manager

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