I am trying to setup Discourse with one-click installer using droplet over Digital Ocean. I followed all the instructions and have correctly configured the SMTP details. But when I register for the admin account using the front-end installer, I am not able to receive the email. I read a tutorial where it is mentioned that if the email doesn’t land in the mailbox, I can still activate the account and set the user as admin using the following commands using the console: cd /var/discourse sudo ./launcher enter app rails c user = User.find_by_email(" ") user.admin = true user.approved = true user.save EmailToken.confirm(user.email_tokens.first.token) I am able to run the commands up to the fourth line. After running the fourth command, it finds and displays the user details. But I am not able to enter the next command. There’s this colon “:” and when I reach the end of the displayed details, “(END)” is written. I can’t type and run the further commands to activate the user. After rails c, there’s this [1] pry (main) > thing. I am not so much acquainted with the command line. Please help me out.

If you’re not receiving mail, then mail is not correctly configured. You seem to have solved your account creation problem, but the recommended way to create an admin account and password is . /launcher enter app rails c rake admin:create That will allow you to create an account change an account password assign admin to an account

This worked great! Note that the rails c is not necessary for running the rake commands. [image] pfaffman: . /launcher enter app rake admin:create

I cannot activate the admin account according your post in the latest version. Error occured at the last command: [image]

The current way to create an admin via the console is to: ./launcher enter app rake admin:create

I just found solution here:Discourse Admin Quick Start Guide

Activating admin account from console

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mpalmer (Matt Palmer) January 27, 2018, 10:55am 2

When the colon appears, press q to get back to a prompt, and type the next command.

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