# Default admin doesn’t receive ‘staff’ or ‘admin’ group memberships at first

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-admin-doesn-t-receive-staff-or-admin-group-memberships-at-first/240911>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [October 4, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-admin-doesn-t-receive-staff-or-admin-group-memberships-at-first/240911 "2022-10-04T17:22:48Z")\
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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:** [October 4, 2022, 5:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-admin-doesn-t-receive-staff-or-admin-group-memberships-at-first/240911/1 "2022-10-04T17:22:48Z")

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Edit: The issue is that the default admin isn’t added to ‘staff’ or ‘admin’ groups initially despite showing as admin: yes in their profile.

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Just tinkering with a new test instance and noticed that after enabling chat the default admin couldn’t see the speech bubble and chat/browse/open kicked them back to /latest.

I had chat\_allowed\_groups set at:

 ![Screenshot 2022-10-04 at 12.19.22 PM](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/f/d/afd26b781c613897aa949f15515783a1b332dae7.png)

So that user should _really_ be able to see chat.

Once I add them to TL4, the chat bubble appears. If I remove TL4 from the admin user then they once again lose access.

2.9.0 beta 10 ([cf646b2061](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/cf646b2061fb0a7ddd9988c523425c30536435ca)) with chat v0.4.

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