# Unable to invite new admin users to account without mailgun setup? **URL:** \ **Category:** Using Ghost\ **Created:** [April 9, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-invite-new-admin-users-to-account-without-mailgun-setup/56711 "2025-04-09T12:30:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![joe-blocher](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/joe-blocher/32/27872_2.png) [@joe-blocher](https://forum.ghost.org/u/joe-blocher)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-invite-new-admin-users-to-account-without-mailgun-setup/56711/5 "2025-04-11T05:40:13Z")
A good solution for creating user without email you can find here: > [@Creating new authors](https://forum.ghost.org/t/creating-new-authors/48694/5): > > Using the Universal Import, you can upload placeholder authors via JSON. The import doesn’t generate emails and the account doesn’t need to be accepted by anyone so you can use anything that validates as an email address here. You can then edit the email, slug, name and role for one of these placeholders from inside admin each time you want to issue an author account to a real person. They’ll need to do a password reset from /ghost/#/signin to start using the login if that’s what they’re going … I created a commandline tool, but I‘m not sure if it works. Only tested in local install: > [@Commandline tool to create user](https://forum.ghost.org/t/commandline-tool-to-create-user/53279): > > Inspired by [wasaluduckworth/add-admin-user-programmatically-in-ghost](https://medium.com/@wasaluduckworth/add-admin-user-programmatically-in-ghost-3488df51df24) I have created a tool for adding users manually without the need for invite with mail. Create as js-file “users.js” in the root-directory of your ghost website users.js require('./current/core/server/models/role'); const UserModel = require('./current/core/server/models/user'); const {Command} = require('./current/node\_modules/commander'); const program = new Command(); program.command('add') .descr… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ghost.org/t/unable-to-invite-new-admin-users-to-account-without-mailgun-setup/56711)._