# Activating admin account from console

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-admin-account-from-console/79146
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [January 27, 2018, 9:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-admin-account-from-console/79146 "2018-01-27T09:46:20Z")
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### Author: ![deltamotion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@deltamotion](https://meta.discourse.org/u/deltamotion)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activating-admin-account-from-console/79146/5 "2019-03-26T19:20:58Z")

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This worked great! Note that the `rails c` is not necessary for running the rake commands.

> [@pfaffman](#):
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> . /launcher enter app  
> rake admin:create

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