# Can an admin change a user's email address?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-change-a-users-email-address/24525
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [28 يناير 2015، 1:37م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-change-a-users-email-address/24525 "2015-01-28T13:37:53Z")
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### Author: ![SylvainKalache](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sylvainkalache/32/116954_2.png) [@SylvainKalache](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SylvainKalache)
#### Post date: [16 ديسمبر 2015، 8:14م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-an-admin-change-a-users-email-address/24525/11 "2015-12-16T20:14:26Z")

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To come back to the original question, I am trying to achieve the same thing: change a user email. However I am trying to do this via the API.

Looking at the [documentation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-documentation/22706) it seems possible via: users/:username/preferences/email

However looking at [Discourse code](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/controllers/users_controller.rb#L468) it seems that this will trigger a job to send a confirmation email to the user. Is there a way to change a user email without the user confirmation?

Even if it’s a hacky way, I REALLY need to do it and I would like to avoid changing the value directly in the DB…

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