Who is able to change profile of another user

[ondrej]

Hello,

TL4 Leader cannot change peoples preferences. In order to do this you must either be a moderator (as is your user in question) or admin. For more information see this topic

Description of various user states in Discourse (Admin / Moderator / Staff / Developer / Other)

Discourse has many built in user states, the following describes the meaning of each state and basic storage implementation: Admin Admin users are the superusers in the system, they can: Impersonate non admins Change site settings Create groups Amend site customizations Perform all the actions moderators can perform Read any personal message Create, delete and modify categories Ignore category permissions to view private categories Storage: The boolean field admin in the users table flags …

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@sbernhard

Can this be turned off somehow? I would prefer that only admins can do this.

Not that I know of. As I said before only moderators and admins can change these things it is not admin specific as moderators are mean to be trusted users of the site.

Thanks