Changing an admin email address

[aaron.n.w (Aaron)]

After installing discourse and the email service the verification emails are working on new users but I can’t update the admin user. It’s set as the default example address. When I go to the user settings and change the email address it says the verification email was sent. But I never receive the email.

[aaron.n.w (Aaron)]

This is an urgent security flaw. I cannot change the default root password without an email verification! I there another way around this?

[omarfilip]

This may be helpful:

Change staff email address from console

We recently introduced a security change: When a staff user changes their email address, for enhanced security they must confirm both new email address AND old email address. However, this creates a problem when a staff member loses access to their old email address and wants to update their email address. In this guide we’ll change the email address of a user (not necessarily staff) via console without the need to access old email address. Let’s get started! :information_source:These comman…

[aaron.n.w (Aaron)]

Thanks for this but when I type ‘rails c’ I get ‘command not found’. There are lots of ruby-related folders. Please give further instructions as I am a bit of a newbie at this.

[aaron.n.w (Aaron)]

Please note I am running it in a docker container.

[omarfilip]

Sounds like you are not inside the app container?

cd /var/discourse

./launcher enter app

rails c