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Confirm gitlab email by CLI
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On your gitlab server run gitlab-rails console production

Find your user via user = User.find_by(email: "youroldemail@example.com")

Optionally change the user's email with user.email = "yournewemail@example.com" Then run user.save!

Get the user's token with user.confirmation_token

https://PutYourGitlabHere/users/confirmation?confirmation_token=PutYourTokenHere

I used this to change my email on a gitlab instance without an email server.

@Schnitzel
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thank you, this saved me hours <3

@nemeth-it
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Same here. Thanks!

@nfriend
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nfriend commented Aug 24, 2020

❤️ 👍 😄

@hesstobi
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hesstobi commented Sep 1, 2020 •
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To verify a secondary email use:

email = Email.find_by(email: "youroldemail@example.com")
email.confirm()

@gpchelkin
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gpchelkin commented Nov 2, 2020 •
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UPD: To verify a secondary email use:

email = Email.find_by(email: "secondaryemail@example.com")
email.confirmed_at = Time.zone.now
email.save!

Works on GitLab 13.3.4
Idea from https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/user/upgrade_email_bypass.html#what-do-i-do-if-i-am-an-administrator-and-i-am-locked-out

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eli-yip commented Jan 21, 2024

thank you so much!!!

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