As an administrator, how can I change a user email address ?

Oh. The email isn’t verified yet? So they aren’t really even a user. I think I’d just delete the account and have them try again.

There are many topics discussing this. You can visit the user’s profile page and change it but they’ll still need to verify their address, which is almost always a good idea. If you want to take matters into your own hands, you can do it from the rails console. It’s much safer than direct database queries. This might work u=User.find_by_username("pat") UserEmail.find_by(user_id: u.id).first.update (email: "pat@gmail.com")

I can not use the console has we are hosted on trydiscourse.com.

[image] pfaffman: You can visit the user’s profile page and change it but they’ll still need to verify their address, which is almost always a good idea. What do you mean by visiting ? If I go to the user page as an administrator, I can edit username and name for example but not the email. [primary-email-editing]

Scroll down to bottom then you will see an impersonation button if your as an admin

Yes indeed, it’s how I do it now. But after impersonation, I need to logout to go back to my administrator account. I hoped there was a better way.

[image] Add 'stop impersonating' link to user avatar dropdown when impersonating Feature As far as I’m aware, there is currently no way to ‘stop impersonating’ a user. In order to do this now, you have to log out, and then log back in as yourself. It’d be nice if there were a link to ‘stop impersonating’ the user in the user avatar dropdown menu: [image] Seems no possible for now

@pfaffman Good point. I will go for account delete. @hawm Thank s for the link I will track it.

How can I change user primary email?

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hawm (Hawm) April 15, 2020, 1:53pm 8

Seems no possible for now

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How can I change user primary email?

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