Title: Invalid user specified.
Last modified: February 9, 2020

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# Invalid user specified.

 *  [jc8192](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jc8192/)
 * (@jc8192)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-user-specified/)
 * Hi, does anybody know how do I fix this error?
    When I click on the pencil image
   to update the translation I am redirected to a “Invalid User Specified” message
   but I can log in with my email and password, can anyone help with this? Thanks

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 *  [earendel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earendel/)
 * (@earendel)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-user-specified/#post-12799492)
 * Yes, I just fixed it.
 * When you activate a lingotek account, an email address is requested from you.
   That must be the same email address assigned to the WordPress user that is currently
   editing the page translations.
 * When you click on the pencil you get redirected to lingotek webpage and it accesses
   by using your Lingotek Login Id (saved in the plugin settings) and the access
   token (automatically generated and stored in the settings).
 * For some reason in the query string it appears the Lingotek login id (info@mywordpresssite.
   net in the example below) AND the email associated to the current WordPress user(
   mypersonal.email@gmail.com) as “acting_login_id”:
 * `...&login_id=info%40mywordpresssite.net&acting_login_id=mypersonal.email%40gmail.
   com&...`
 * That gave me the idea that probably the “acting_login_id” was used for authentication
   instead of the “login_id” or that for some reason they had to match.
 * As soon as I changed the WordPress user email address to the one used as Lingotek
   username, it all worked.
 * That looks quite like a bug to me because I would want all my editors to be able
   to review the translations and not only the WordPress user of which the email
   has been used as Lingotek account username (considering that such user may even
   not exist).
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by [earendel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earendel/).
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by [earendel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/earendel/).
 *  [yocheckthis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yocheckthis/)
 * (@yocheckthis)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-user-specified/#post-12810203)
 * I’m not sure it’s a bug.
    You can change the Login id of the Lingotek user (default:
   Login id is the same as the user’s email). Alternatively, you can create another
   community member for the same project which has the same email you use on you’re
   currently logged in WordPress user you’re using to edit translations.

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