# User API cannot be used by admins of TL0
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-cannot-be-used-by-admins-of-tl0/49935
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [September 9, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-cannot-be-used-by-admins-of-tl0/49935 "2016-09-09T14:26:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-cannot-be-used-by-admins-of-tl0/49935/1 "2016-09-09T14:26:25Z")
While trying to log into my admin account in the Discourse iOS app for my new installation, Discourse told me that I _do not have the required trust level to access the user API_. Admins are usually exempt from permission checks, so they should probably also exempted here 🙂
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-cannot-be-used-by-admins-of-tl0/49935/2 "2016-09-10T05:02:35Z")
Why would this happen @sam?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2016, 5:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-cannot-be-used-by-admins-of-tl0/49935/3 "2016-09-10T05:08:12Z")
Yeah a bug, I will fix it, default is that tl0 don’t get access to user api
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2016, 5:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-cannot-be-used-by-admins-of-tl0/49935/4 "2016-09-12T05:42:37Z")
Fixed per:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2d859ba0ed5ce541a1304e3abfe263f7462276e4](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2d859ba0ed5ce541a1304e3abfe263f7462276e4)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2016, 5:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-cannot-be-used-by-admins-of-tl0/49935/5 "2016-09-12T05:42:41Z")