# Reverse or undo an approved user?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-or-undo-an-approved-user/43675
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [May 4, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-or-undo-an-approved-user/43675 "2016-05-04T16:17:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@precessor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/precessor)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2016, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-or-undo-an-approved-user/43675/1 "2016-05-04T16:17:35Z")
My forum is “must approve”. I just approved a user, but I shouldn’t have. Can I undo it?
(Forum not sending emails, so the user didn’t get a notification. It seems that my only option is to suspend the user now, which will appear on their profile page, and carries negative impression which I don’t want to give.)
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### Author:  [@mikechristopher](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mikechristopher)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-or-undo-an-approved-user/43675/2 "2016-05-04T16:31:00Z")
Go to your admin section, users, go to the user, under Permissions you have active yes or no - you should be able to deactivate the account there?
Does that do what you what it to do?
Edit: OK no it does do what I thought it would after testing it - could do with a unapprove next to the approved field like the deactivate button
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-or-undo-an-approved-user/43675/3 "2019-01-15T13:37:56Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2021, 8:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-or-undo-an-approved-user/43675/4 "2021-12-31T08:56:51Z")