# Cannot set security on uncategorized

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-set-security-on-uncategorized/107866
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 29, 2019, 10:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-set-security-on-uncategorized/107866 "2019-01-29T22:52:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Bank\_Live](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bank_live/32/75893_2.png) [@Bank\_Live](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bank_Live)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2019, 10:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-set-security-on-uncategorized/107866/1 "2019-01-29T22:52:14Z")

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i cannot set

 ![issue2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/7/a747c8284d123ee9eb3069483cafeb26c2b7ddcd.png)

Is i can set

 ![issue2-2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/8/3/83b7a0073ee20adcc6331c64b0831b298351a0b0.png)

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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-set-security-on-uncategorized/107866/2 "2019-01-29T23:31:54Z")

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Is that your Uncategorized category? Uncategorized is a special category that is used as a default for uncategorized topics. Category permissions cannot be set on it.

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### Author: ![Bank\_Live](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bank_live/32/75893_2.png) [@Bank\_Live](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bank_Live)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-set-security-on-uncategorized/107866/3 "2019-01-30T01:03:24Z")

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Yes uncategorized category

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-set-security-on-uncategorized/107866/4 "2019-01-30T01:43:09Z")

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Then it’s behaving as expected. If you don’t want to use uncategorized disable it from /admin

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-set-security-on-uncategorized/107866/5 "2019-03-01T01:43:14Z")

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