# LDAP sensible data hidden to admins?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-sensible-data-hidden-to-admins/43749
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 5, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-sensible-data-hidden-to-admins/43749 "2016-05-05T18:15:03Z")
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### Author: ![yadlabus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@yadlabus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/yadlabus)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2016, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ldap-sensible-data-hidden-to-admins/43749/1 "2016-05-05T18:15:03Z")

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Hello,

I’m a newbie about this LDAP authorization stuff, so I’ll explain my issue with very simple words.

My company adopted discourse for an internal forum after I showed them how nice it was 🙂. They created a new instance on our company internal server, configured LDAP for secured authentications and restored a backup from my old Digital Ocean discourse forum.

In the process, my admin privileges have been downgraded to moderator. There are privileges that I am really missing such as category editing or user group managing.

The new admin who is also our company network architect, sent me a snapshot of the Admin/Settings/Plugins tab. He hid 2 parameters from the LDAP plugin:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/d/9db7cdf539f3139ac78034d542f93580fdb92ddb.png)  
I guess those are very sensible parameters that I should not have access as an admin of the forum, since I am not an IT but a simple employee in my company.

Is there a way to regain my admin privileges and yet those informations to remain hidden to me?

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