Default Reserved usernames can not be deleted

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For some reason I can not delete the default “Reserved Usernames” (I could a few weeks ago, but not anymore) - they all are disabled.

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  • I am logged in with admin account (the one I created during first signup after installation). There is one more admin account and for both it shows the same way
  • The discourse is up to date
  • I tried to login in incognito (for prevent possible cache/cookie related issues), same thing

Note sure if this is related - but at some point in time I when I created a second admin account, from that (second) admin account I revoked the admin privileges of the first/initial admin and then granted admin again (so ATM both are admin).

Both admins have admin and moderator privileges and are connected to admin and moderator groups

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Hi @tig3,

Your changes to your admin lineup are not related. The default reserved usernames are now hard-coded as mandatory values.

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Hi @Southpaw thanks for the reply.

But would not it be better to hardcode just one or two (assuming the problem is in null values of that field, from what I understand from the commit message). I mean suppose I want to create a user with “support” or “info” usernames for some messages in the forum (or just Admin), so should I just change the yml file and rebuild to be able to do so ?

Thank you

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If they can’t be deleted they shouldn’t be there any more. The tokens all have X symbols that make it look like I can be deleted. Or at least the Xs should be removed.

The descriptive text could list the mandatory ones instead (or explain why some have no Xs, as the case may be).

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I think the x symbols are removed from the mandatory values

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@Southpaw I just did a fresh installation and tried editing the site_settings.yml and it does not work neither before nor after rebuild.

So, could you please let me know if there is any way, so I can remove those values from mandatory so I can create users with those usernames.

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I take it all back then. I looked using my forum, but now see that I need to upgrade!

(Incidentally I wasn’t able to quote you as I wasn’t able to highlight any text – iPhone using Hub app.)

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iPhones do that every now and then. And quite often, at same time, it refuses open the composer. Closing and re-open fixes it. This could need a bug report, but iPhones are a bit pain in the tender places and that issue isn’t consistent, so I never bothered.