# Accessing the Admin Panel in the Source Code

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-the-admin-panel-in-the-source-code/283571>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [October 26, 2023, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-the-admin-panel-in-the-source-code/283571 "2023-10-26T18:40:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marshably](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marshably/32/335851_2.png) [@Marshably](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Marshably)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2023, 6:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessing-the-admin-panel-in-the-source-code/283571/6 "2023-10-27T06:03:09Z")

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> [@simon](#):
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> Do you really need to prevent moderators _and_ admins from viewing user’s IP addresses? There are a few requests on this site to add a setting that prevents moderators from viewing IP address. I’m not aware of other sites wanting to prevent admins from viewing IP addresses.

I wanted to prevent Moderators from viewing the IP Addresses as my community is not going to become larger than maybe 100 Users and some of them are upset over the fact that IP Addresses are collected (I’ve already explained every website collects their IP and some sell it). So I decided to attempt to remove it completely however that has not yet worked.

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