Hi, I found the email template “confirm old email” which says that “Before we can change your email address, we need you to…” How can I change any user email address? I cannot see any option in the profile, only the “show” option.

Are you using SSO? If so, it’s likely that your email addresses/usernames are being handled outside of native Discourse by the SSO authenticator.

no, SSO options are ticked off. If users cannot change their email address themselves, I was wondering how can I change it for them.

There is a topic on this. Pls search. Short answer: Deactivate the account, change email, reactivate.

Are you referring to staff? Only staff have the restriction that both emails must be confirmed for security reasons.

It does not work anymore. :frowning:

[image] bekircem: It does not work anymore. :frowning: Can you be more specific? What exactly doesn’t work anymore?

Also, selecting user, then Show Public Profile, Preferences. Here one can change the email

Nope. Not any more. It seems to send an email asking for verification. This topic is asking how to change the email address without the verification step.

The way to do this now is: [image] Change user's email without verification installation There has been a change in the way emails are stored in the database. The following commands should work: cd /var/discourse sudo ./launcher enter app rails c UserEmail.find_by(emai…

I just tried this (assuming that the cd /var/discourse is a line by itself and that sudo … is a separate line) and I just got the error: -bash: syntax error near unexpected token ‘(’ Then I tried cd /var/discourse sudo ./launcher enter app rails c UserEmail.find_by(email: "oid@example.com").upd…

Changing users email address

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schungx (Stephen Chung) January 10, 2018, 3:15am 10

The way to do this now is:

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