Admin user email address

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I’m trying to get email notifications via gmail working and I need to set/change the admin email address.

System Version: 25.04.1

You can configure the email address for the admin user as part of your initial system setup or by following the procedure below. You can also configure email addresses for additional user accounts as needed.

Before configuring anything else, set the local administrator email address. Go to Credentials > Users, click on the admin user row to expand it, then select Edit to open the Edit User configuration screen. In the Email field, enter a remote email address for the system administrator that regularly monitors (like admin@example.com), and click Save.

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Any ideas?

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Default admin user is truenas_admin you can find under Credentials, Users, and add an email address in that users profile.

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Yeah, but there are no users under credentials/users
I just get ‘can not retrieve a response’ as picture shows

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Thats odd. I presume you have refreshed your browser etc?

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Yes I have tried everything! It’s the same on my mobile browser

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Perhaps a server restart? What are your hardware specs?

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Aren’t system users hidden by default? There should be a button to display system users, such as root or the truenas_admin

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show-users

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I upgraded a couple of days ago, but just restarted to check and its still the same

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From what?

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25.04
Meaning it had recently restarted

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@dan Does this work on your main system?

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Good question–I’d thought it had, but under 25.04.1, it appears the admin user is not shown.

Incorrect, see below.

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i must be doing something wrong again since both root and truenas_admin show up for me on 25.04.1 without showing the buildin users

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Turns out I can see the admin user, but it wasn’t where I expected it–it’s user 3003, not user 950.

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Where are you seeing that?
I appear to have something horribly wrong!

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My admin user, created during initial install, has a UID 1000.
It depends on when you created it. Is 950 from the Core installs?

Nowadays it’s created with a UID in the 3000 range for “reasons”.

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Naah I installed scale when 22.xx was in beta, but I’ve recently had to reset my config and during the new setup the admin user was created.

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Hmm, I may be misremembering things.
My 1000 UID is from the winter/spring 2022 Angelfish release. Maybe I made my own and removed the default admin account?

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No, CORE only uses root, which is UID 0. CE 25.04.1 creates truenas_admin as UID 950.

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