# Change user's email without verification

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-email-without-verification/66602>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** rails-console\
**Created:** [July 21, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-email-without-verification/66602 "2017-07-21T15:47:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-email-without-verification/66602/2 "2017-07-21T19:18:22Z")

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Off-hand, I’d guess something like this would work:

```plaintext
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
rails c
User.find_by(email: "chowder@mmmm.fooo").update(email: "bisque@soup.mmmm")
exit
exit

```

That’s console access, obviously.

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