does anybody know how to hook or filter the user-edit.php file so that an user’s email address is disabled from editing akin to how the username is disabled ..??..

i can edit the core file (gasp) and include disabled=”disabled” in the form and this works but i’m at a loss as to how to add the disable via hook or filter ..

i can also run a function like this that hides the email address via css

/* Change WordPress dashboard CSS */
function custom_admin_styles() {
echo '<style type="text/css">#email { display: none !important; }</style>';
}
add_action('admin_head', 'custom_admin_styles');

but that pulls out the whole email thus form looks funny and then i believe that with a DOM Editor like Firebug, one can still access that email field thus change it … ugh …

ideally, i would like to replace this entire user-edit.php code from this ->

<label for="email"><?php _e('E-mail'); ?> <span class="description"><?php _e('(required)'); ?></span></label></th><td><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="<?php echo esc_attr($profileuser->user_email) ?>" disabled="disabled" class="regular-text" /> <span class="description"><?php _e('Emails cannot be changed.'); ?></span>

to something like this ->

<label for="email"><?php _e('E-mail'); ?> </label></th><td><?php echo esc_attr($profileuser->user_email) ?>" Please Contact Tech support to change your email

thanks in advance for any pointers you can share … cordially, chuck scott