Admin ability to impersonate other admin differs between admins

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Some admins on my site can impersonate other admins, while some cannot.
So there would appear to be admins vs super admins?

As far as I can grok, the difference correspsonds to how the particular admin was created.
Or at least whether the admin’s email is listed in app.yml under DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS.

Those admins listed under "DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS" CAN impersonate other admins, while those admins NOT listed there cannot.

So is there actually some kind of “super admin” or rather a “super-developer-admin” role?

I did try to search for this issue but did not find an answer.
Sorry if my search was not thorough enough.

Thank you in advance and kind regards, Jakob.

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An admin user, who also has the status of a developer, has some additional abilities. Not only can they impersonate other admins, but their admin status cannot be removed via the user interface.

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Thanks for the response.

Can I remove another admin from the DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS without causing problems for them?
Or will it cause login-problems or such?

It is really only appropriate that I am developer.

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There is a visible difference between admins and superadmins on their “user-page”:
The “superAdmins” looks like the first image.
While the “ordinary” admins look like the second image.
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This was not entirely exact.
There are differences, but it does not correspond exactly …

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