# Can an administrator switch to another administrator's account?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-administrator-switch-to-another-administrators-account/287394
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 4, 2023, 9:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-administrator-switch-to-another-administrators-account/287394 "2023-12-04T09:57:47Z")
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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2023, 10:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-administrator-switch-to-another-administrators-account/287394/3 "2023-12-04T10:12:30Z")

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You can only impersonate an admin with an admin account, whose email is in the DEVELOPER\_EMAILS list of your app.yml.

> [@Impersonate the discobot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/impersonate-the-discobot/224965/7):
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> > [@Impersonate the discobot](https://meta.discourse.org/t/impersonate-the-discobot/224965/3):
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> > I believe only sysadmins can impersonate Discobot (ie. the accounts of the emails in the app.yml). Same for system, and I _think_ other sysadmins too.
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> I can confirm this. I sometimes need to impersonate other admin accounts (long story…) and had to add my admin account’s email to app.yml before I could do so.

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