# Admin status repeatedly revoked
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-status-repeatedly-revoked/265299
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 17, 2023, 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-status-repeatedly-revoked/265299 "2023-05-17T08:50:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@squarecranium](https://meta.discourse.org/u/squarecranium)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-status-repeatedly-revoked/265299/1 "2023-05-17T08:50:23Z")
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 their admin status).
If anyone has had something similar happen, or knows how to fix it please let me know!
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### Author:  [@Lhc\_fl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lhc_fl)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-status-repeatedly-revoked/265299/2 "2023-05-17T08:52:59Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 9:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-status-repeatedly-revoked/265299/3 "2023-05-17T09:09:17Z")
If you could share what plugins you have installed, that could be useful. For instance, configuring the [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true) plugin in a certain way may result in removal of certain groups (see [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setup-discourseconnect-official-single-sign-on-for-discourse-sso/13045#specifying-group-membership-7)).
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### Author:  [@squarecranium](https://meta.discourse.org/u/squarecranium)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 9:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-status-repeatedly-revoked/265299/4 "2023-05-17T09:12:02Z")
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 Just had a look and there is nothing in the log to suggest the admin status has been revoked by anyone else.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 and were no longer able to access admin controls.
Next entry in log shows:
- 28 mins ago Admin2 (me) has re-granted Admin1 admin access
There is nothing between these 2 events in the log. Very odd!
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### Author:  [@squarecranium](https://meta.discourse.org/u/squarecranium)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 9:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-status-repeatedly-revoked/265299/5 "2023-05-17T09:15:00Z")
Thank you Natalie, Plugins that have been installed are:
- [discourse-calendar](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-calendar)
- [discourse-foirmatting-toolbar](https://github.com/MonDiscourse/discourse-formatting-toolbar)
- [discourse-gamification](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-gamification)
- [discourse-saml](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-saml)
- [discourse-topic-voting](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-topic-voting)
- [docker\_manager](https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager)
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2023, 9:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-status-repeatedly-revoked/265299/6 "2023-05-17T09:18:30Z")
> [@squarecranium](#):
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> discourse-saml
Depending on how SAML is set up it may be your culprit.
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