# Cant update email via API - invalid\_access error

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-update-email-via-api-invalid-access-error/87260>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [May 11, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-update-email-via-api-invalid-access-error/87260 "2018-05-11T13:06:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![DDo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ddo/32/142669_2.png) [@DDo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DDo)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2020, 5:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-update-email-via-api-invalid-access-error/87260/15 "2020-03-03T17:28:30Z")

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Thank you @blake, that’s challanging but tickling 😉

I’d have to import the passwords from Discourse to the identity hub … oh my.

Helped my original szenario with a 3-stepper: enable email editable, initiate change of email-address, disable email editable. Which seems a bit oversized, but works.

Will think about the sso szenario.

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