From e35b83ae49bf762807209d30f71297ed8be35b92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krzysztof Nazarewski
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2025 16:45:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] provide mitigation ideas to one account per user limit
---
src/pages/how-to/add-users-to-your-network.mdx | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/pages/how-to/add-users-to-your-network.mdx b/src/pages/how-to/add-users-to-your-network.mdx
index d4cd04d6..4456f4ff 100644
--- a/src/pages/how-to/add-users-to-your-network.mdx
+++ b/src/pages/how-to/add-users-to-your-network.mdx
@@ -43,8 +43,15 @@ After logging in to the system, they will join your network automatically.
- If a user already has a NetBird account, you can't invite them.
+ If a user already has a NetBird account with the email you are using to invite them, you can’t invite them.
This is a limitation that is likely to be removed in future versions.
+
+ You can mitigate this issue with those approaches:
+ - invite an aliased email (most email providers support those),
+ for example invite `me+another@example.com` instead of `me@example.com`,
+ - ask the user to log in and delete his/her organization (if it's the only user in the organization),
+ - ask the user organization's Admin/Owner to delete their user account,
+ - (optionally) transfer the Owner and/or Admin role to somebody else at user's ogranization first,
## Identity Provider (IdP) Sync