goauthentik / goauthentik/authentik
Users created without email cannot save user settings
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Description
## What
admin user-create treats email as optional, but user-settings requires it so users with empty email cannot save (e.g. locale). #25096 explicitly Closes #21946.
## Want
- Admin user-create treats email as optional, but user-settings requires it so users with empty email cannot save (e.g. locale)
- #25096 explicitly Closes #21946
## Ideas this came from
- [#21946 Email address optional in user creation dialogue, but not in the user settings](https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/issues/21946) — When creating a new user through the admin web-interface (https://
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing the behavior described in issues #25096 and #21946, then reproduce it through the admin user-creation and user-settings pages with an empty email. Done means a user created without an email can save a settings change such as locale.
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Assessment
- Domain
- authentication, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100