# Restore primary admin account

**URL:** <https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-primary-admin-account/11363>\
**Category:** Help with Unusual Circumstances\
**Created:** [January 11, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-primary-admin-account/11363 "2024-01-11T22:07:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![willyguevara](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@willyguevara](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/willyguevara)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-primary-admin-account/11363/1 "2024-01-11T22:07:18Z")

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Hello, by mistake I have deleted my admin user, the one that was created at the beginning of installing MIAB, I already managed to put another user as admin from the CLI to enter the Admin-Panel and create the admin email account again, but it won’t let me, How can I restore it?

Message in admin panel:

“You may not make a user account for that address because it is frequently used for domain control validation. Use an alias instead if necessary.”

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**Author:** ![andrew](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/user_avatar/discourse.mailinabox.email/andrew/32/1449_2.png) [@andrew](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/andrew)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-primary-admin-account/11363/2 "2024-01-13T23:34:53Z")

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Perhaps rerun `mailinabox`, the install tool?

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**Author:** ![willyguevara](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@willyguevara](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/willyguevara)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-primary-admin-account/11363/3 "2024-01-15T15:13:53Z")

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Thanks, yeah, i already try that but it doesn’t work, what works as a workaround was to edit the file:

`management/mailconfig.py`

comment line `264` and `268`

and restart mailinabox.

And recreate the user via admin panel.

then uncomment again an d restart again mailinabox.

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**Author:** ![Jordancameron](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@Jordancameron](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/Jordancameron)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 6:43am UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-primary-admin-account/11363/4 "2024-04-29T06:43:08Z")

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Editing `mailconfig.py` to comment out lines, restarting Mail-in-a-Box, and adjusting users in the admin panel before rebooting again is a clever fix.

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**Author:** ![stylnchris](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/user_avatar/discourse.mailinabox.email/stylnchris/32/2189_2.png) [@stylnchris](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/stylnchris)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/restore-primary-admin-account/11363/5 "2024-04-29T21:49:27Z")

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```auto
cd /root/mailinabox
sudo management/cli.py user make-admin youremailaddress@domain.tld

```