Title: edit_user problem
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# edit_user problem

 *  [CriZ666](https://wordpress.org/support/users/criz666/)
 * (@criz666)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit_user-problem/)
 * Hi, I need to set a role as low as the Subscriber but with the “edit_user” capability,
   so I create a new user same as Subscriber and I added the “edit_user” capability…
   problem is that now this new role can also edit the Administrator and I don’t
   want that…is there any way to avoid this?
 * cheers
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit_user-problem/)
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