Confirm gitlab email by CLI

Confirm-gitlab-email.md

On your gitlab server run gitlab-rails console production

Find your user via user = User.find_by(email: "[email protected]")

Optionally change the user's email with user.email = "[email protected]" 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.

UPD: To verify a secondary email use:

email = Email.find_by(email: "[email protected]")
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

thank you so much!!!

A cleaner way to verify (as of 17.6.1, probably earlier too) is this:

user = User.find_by(email: "[email protected]")
user.confirm()

This works for secondary emails too:

email = Email.find_by(email: "[email protected]")
email.confirm()

For me it could not find it by email. You are also able to search by eg: user = User.find_by(id: 1) this will get the root user then you can you can user.confirm() and after that user.save this solved my problem. (this will also allow you to change the default email by user.email = "[email protected]"