How to change local user's e-mail address in Confluence
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Summary
This KB will help to change the email address of a local user in Confluence from Database when email updates can't be done via the UI.
Solution
As this involves database manipulation, do take a backup of the database before executing any UPDATE, ALTER, or DROP statement.
Test the solution in a staging environment before applying it to the production environment
This will require downtime as Confluence needs to be restarted after making the DB changes, hence please plan this activity accordingly.
This workaround is only for users from the internal user directory.
Run the following query for the user whose email you need to change
1 2 3 4select * from cwd_user c inner join cwd_directory d on c.directory_id=d.id where user_name= 'name of the user' and d.directory_name='Confluence Internal Directory'Please ensure that you only have 1 result in the above query result.
Update the email with the following query
1 2 3 4 5 6update cwd_user set email_address = 'example@email.com', lower_email_address = 'example@email.com' where id = (select c.id from cwd_user c inner join cwd_directory d on c.directory_id=d.id where user_name= 'name of the user' and d.directory_name='Confluence Internal Directory')Replace the example@email.com with the correct email.
Go to the Cache Management page.
Scroll down the page and click on the Flush All button.
Check the results. If the email wasn't changed, restart Confluence.
Please ensure that you only have 1 user with the 'name of the user' username or the email will be updated for all users with that username.
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