# Admin vs Moderator vs leader

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-vs-moderator-vs-leader/89008
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 2, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-vs-moderator-vs-leader/89008 "2018-06-02T18:21:58Z")
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### Author: ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-vs-moderator-vs-leader/89008/5 "2018-06-02T20:02:55Z")

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Good point. The answer is no, unless John Doe also has ssh access to the server because the creator admin has her email in the `app.yml` which makes it unremovable via the discourse UI.

And here is another privilege of the “creator admin”:

> [@I entered the wrong admin email address during initial setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-entered-the-wrong-admin-email-address-during-initial-setup/74241/38):
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> You can only impersonate an admin if you’re in the DEVELOPER\_EMAILS list.

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