# Why are email addresses compulsory? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 15, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-are-email-addresses-compulsory/97105 "2017-08-15T13:38:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TimWard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timward/32/19574_2.png) [@TimWard](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimWard)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-are-email-addresses-compulsory/97105/1 "2017-08-15T13:38:41Z")
Kibana won't let you create a user without specifying an email address (to which it applies some, not checked what exactly, syntax validation). Why? - isn't it up to me whether I want to specify an email address or not? What's it going to do with the email address? Why should I have to specify email addresses for users that aren't even people? - typing in "nobody@example.com" seems a bit unnecessarily tedious. ---
**Author:** ![joshbressers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/joshbressers/32/42332_2.png) [@joshbressers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joshbressers)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-are-email-addresses-compulsory/97105/2 "2017-08-15T14:45:16Z")
I think this is a reasonable request. I'll make a point to investigate how to best deal with this as part of our upcoming SSO features. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-are-email-addresses-compulsory/97105/3 "2017-09-12T14:45:32Z")
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