# Why users downgraded from administrator to editor status automatically? **URL:** \ **Category:** Permissions & Access Control\ **Created:** [August 3, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/why-users-downgraded-from-administrator-to-editor-status-automatically/1738 "2021-08-03T19:15:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rshum](https://pressbooks.community/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@rshum](https://pressbooks.community/u/rshum)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/why-users-downgraded-from-administrator-to-editor-status-automatically/1738/1 "2021-08-03T19:15:14Z")
10 Users had been assigned as administrator on a Pressbook but some of them were downgraded to editor status after sometimes. I am very sure that I corrected this issue when users reported but the changes keep happening. Can there be too many administrators on a particular book? Could there be a reason why a user’s status would default to a lower setting? I’m a bit perplexed at this point why this keeps happening. When I go to reset the status, it seems fine and the change seems to stick. My worry is that it isn’t stable. ---
**Author:** ![SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/user_avatar/pressbooks.community/steelwagstaff/32/1280_2.png) [@SteelWagstaff](https://pressbooks.community/u/SteelWagstaff)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 9:51pm UTC](https://pressbooks.community/t/why-users-downgraded-from-administrator-to-editor-status-automatically/1738/2 "2021-08-10T21:51:59Z")
Hi @rshum there’s no intrinsic limit to the number of administrators in a book, and nothing in our code base that would automatically downgrade user permissions. Changes to user permissions only take place when they’re manually adjusted by another book admin or a network super administrator/network manager. You might want to check with the other users you’ve made admins to make sure that they’re not changing permissions for colleagues?