I’m getting situations where people need to change their email address but can’t get into Discourse to do it themselves, and are asking me, the admin, to do it for them. But I can’t see any way to do that, and so now I’ve got people who can’t get into the site. Is there a way for me to change a user…

[image] adrelanos: Discourse sends a verification e-mail to the old e-mail address which will never arrive. Hence, e-mail cannot be updated. If you have access to the site’s rails console, you can change email addresses without triggering a confirmation email. Enter the docker container and …

Can an admin change a user's email address?

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DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor) January 28, 2015, 11:01pm 3

FYI:This was also recently discussed in a similar topic here although not 100% specific to your question:

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Allow admins to change email addresses easily Feature	10	5167	August 26, 2024
Change email for SSO user? SSO	35	9336	September 9, 2024
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Change user's email address via API without confirmation Dev rest-api	6	757	August 14, 2020
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Can an admin change a user's email address?

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