[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60789: Administration Email Address: Allow method to deactivate

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#60789: Administration Email Address: Allow method to deactivate
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 Reporter:  andrewhoyer        |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration     |     Version:
 Severity:  normal             |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion close  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by webdados):

 Replying to [comment:10 ourwebservices]:
 > A simple way to negate this issue would be to prevent an administrator
 user from being deleted if its email address matches the site admin. To
 remove the admin they would need to change and approve the email,
 otherwise the current admin can keep access until a proper hand over of
 ownership.

 That's a good concept but has a minor failure point: sometimes site owners
 just change the developer user password as when they try to delete it
 they're prompted to either delete posts or move them to another user. For
 a non-tech savvy website owner, this is a scary prompt, so they give up on
 deleting the user and just change their password or set them as
 subscribers.
 One can argue that if the user exists, then he can request a password
 change, regain access and take care of removing his email from the site
 options, but that's assuming the website is correctly configured to send
 email (which actually would make the original problem "silent" 🤣).

 Anyway: it's a good first approach to the issue.

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