How to remove email addresses from admin area...?

[Donny]

I run a few forums with moderators and administrators I've never personally met. I'd like to find a way of removing the email addresses of members from the admin area, so that nobody but myself has access to them. I feel one day it could be used to clone and / or spam. I guess the data is valuable to somebody and I'd want to protect that.

Is there a way to still allow administrators to upgrade users manually from the admin panel, but not show them the full details of the user?

Perhaps I could just physically remove the email address box from a PHP file or something? Would that mean that when you upgrade a user and save the page, that the forum would remove the email address from the database and show the user as never having one? Or would that work?

 

[Donny]

Nobody ever needed or asked this?

You guys just letting all your admins have access to all your email addresses?

@Staff ? @Administrators @moderators

 

[Mr Lucky]

Nobody ever needed or asked this?

Me! I asked for it

Lack of interest - Separate Admin permissions for email communications

I have given my admins permissions for Users as it us useful for certian thinsg such as checking for duplicate registrations, deleting/merging users etc., but I'd be happier if they didn't have access to users' emails, and esecially not be able to batch email them and especially not to generate...

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[Mr Lucky]

The primary issue is the batch email function, as that can generate a list of all emails. I have made that menu item unavailable to other admins, as well as using a temporary redirect for the page. So even if they know the URL, they will be redirected to member search. If I want to use it I just temporarily disable the redirect.

Not ideal, but its a workaround.

This add-on may do the trick, haven't yet checked:

Unmaintained - Granular Administrator Permissions

This adds over a dozen new administrator permissions: Manage thread reply bans Manage custom thread fields Batch threads capability Delete server error logs View admin logs Tool access Manage connected account providers Import/Export users...

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