# 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:** [7월 21, 2017, 3:47오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-email-without-verification/66602 "2017-07-21T15:47:04Z")
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### Author: ![JagWaugh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagwaugh/32/69335_2.png) [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)
#### Post date: [7월 22, 2017, 5:07오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-users-email-without-verification/66602/4 "2017-07-22T05:07:40Z")

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Try this, the verification mail goes out, but they don’t have to respond to it:

> [@Changing a user's email address when they can't access their account](https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-change-a-users-email-when-they-cant-access-the-email-account/56322):
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> bookmark This guide explains how to change a user’s email address when they can’t access their original email account and have forgotten their password. person_raising_hand Required user level: Administrator There are situations where you may need to change a user’s email address on their behalf, such as when they no longer have access to the email associated with their account. This often occurs after migrating from a preexisting system where users logged in with a username and password…

Too late for me to edit that now, but it should be deactivate, change, reactivate iirc.

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