# Non admin has access to closed category

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-admin-has-access-to-closed-category/36851>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 17, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-admin-has-access-to-closed-category/36851 "2015-12-17T18:09:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlexBCodecademy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@AlexBCodecademy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlexBCodecademy)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/non-admin-has-access-to-closed-category/36851/1 "2015-12-17T18:09:09Z")

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So I have a closed category for our forum moderators.

A non moderator was able to comment on a thread in our category that’s locked. I looked at the category permissions and confirmed he does not meet any of those, check this users badges, groups and user level - nothing!

I am super confused. I impersonated him and was able to see the closed thread with direct link, see below:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/1/61a66f04efd7fecca72b8f7cb441cb77b8febaa8.png)

He can’t see the category - that’s not showing up, but I am wondering how he got here?

Thank you.

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