Title: only admin can invite?
Last modified: January 30, 2019

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# only admin can invite?

 *  Resolved [webbuildermn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webbuildermn/)
 * (@webbuildermn)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-admin-can-invite/)
 * Isn’t this a security risk? If subscribers can invite new people and change the
   SMTP settings? I would like only editors and above at least to be able to invite
   new users. Maybe it’s not hard to change this in PHP. I’ll look into that. If
   you know how, let me know- probably only a few lines strategically placed, or
   maybe not. Either case, we should limit access to those with privileges.

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 *  Thread Starter [webbuildermn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webbuildermn/)
 * (@webbuildermn)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-admin-can-invite/#post-11150580)
 * I’m so dumb. I am always so hasty. I mistakenly checked the box Role Based Access-
   subscriber, because I thought that was what made the users subscribers. I unchecked
   it. Now they can’t access.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/only-admin-can-invite/#post-11150580)
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