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.

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. [image]Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions Developer Special account used to install Discourse View rack-mini-profiler showing timings on the page Impersonate any account including admins Automatically becomes admin and has all admin rights Storage: controlled via the developer_emails global setting or the developers table, in Docker install use the env var DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS to specify an email list of users who are developers.

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.

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. Album This was not entirely exact. There are differences, but it does not correspond exactly …

Admin ability to impersonate other admin differs between admins

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Moin January 20, 2024, 6:23pm 2

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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