# Can I change the owner of a post?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-owner-of-a-post/34282
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [8 oktober 2015 om 19:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-owner-of-a-post/34282 "2015-10-08T19:57:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Juan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Juan)
#### Post date: [8 oktober 2015 om 19:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-owner-of-a-post/34282/1 "2015-10-08T19:57:04Z")
Our initial installation used local users, and some posts were created by “team generic accounts”, then we enabled sso and those accounts became invalid, having every employee his own personal account.
Those first posts can now only be edited by admins, and I’d like to make other people owner so they can edit them without being admins themselves.
I couldn’t do it via the gui, so I guess the only way is directly in the database, can anybody guide me through that?
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### Author:  [@lisajill](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lisajill)
#### Post date: [8 oktober 2015 om 19:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-owner-of-a-post/34282/2 "2015-10-08T19:59:04Z")
You should be able to in the gui; I just did.
Go to the post, click the wrench, click select posts, select the post you want to change the author by choosing "change ownership"and following the prompts.
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### Author:  [@Juan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Juan)
#### Post date: [8 oktober 2015 om 20:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-owner-of-a-post/34282/3 "2015-10-08T20:02:44Z")
Awesome! I had been trying from the wrench in the post itself.
That worked, thanks!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9 oktober 2015 om 04:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-owner-of-a-post/34282/4 "2015-10-09T04:42:24Z")
We need to add this function (duplicate the function) in the post menu as well can you make sure that’s on your list @techapj?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [11 oktober 2015 om 18:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-owner-of-a-post/34282/5 "2015-10-11T18:48:59Z")
Okay, done:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b72434d0248aa29440b72a379796443918734230](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b72434d0248aa29440b72a379796443918734230)
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Closing this topic in favor of: [Wiki and avatar - #9 by techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wiki-and-avatar/33658/9)
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [11 oktober 2015 om 18:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-change-the-owner-of-a-post/34282/6 "2015-10-11T18:49:03Z")