How to set a user's email address

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If a user’s email address is incorrect, then to change it you have 2 choices:

  1. Login to the FreeIPA Web Interface and change it
  2. Change it from the command line

I have tried using the web interface before, and encountered issues whereby it didn’t save correctly - so I’m writing this post to document how it’s done via the commandline.

Step 1

Login to fs-ipa (check the Server Infrastructure post for details) via SSH.

Step 2

Enter a root shell:

sudo bash

Enter your password when prompted.

Step 3

Find the user’s account. Do this like so:

ipa user-find USERNAME_HERE

Replace USERNAME_HERE with the user’s username (i.e. the one used to login to the desktop machines etc).

Step 4

Set the user’s email address. This will replace any and all email addresses registered in the user’s account.

ipa user-mod USERNAME_HERE --email=USER@EXAMPLE.COM

Replace USERNAME_HERE with the user’s username as before, and USER@EXAMPLE.COM with the new email address.

Step 5

Verify that the change has gone through correctly. Do this like so:


ipa user-find USERNAME_HERE

Replace USERNAME_HERE with the user’s username as before. The user’s new email address should be displayed somewhere in the resulting output.