Mastodon: Don't know how to build task mastodon:confirm_email

[art-lucas]

I've installed Mastodon (v2.8.4) on Docker using these instructions at Linode. All is runnig fine, and I get to the registration page. I then want to approve emails manually using the command:

$docker-compose run web rails mastodon:confirm_email [email protected]

But the above command comes back with the following error:

Starting mastodon_db_1 ... done
Starting mastodon_redis_1 ... done
rake aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'mastodon:confirm_email' (See the list of available tasks with `rake --tasks`)
/opt/mastodon/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/exe/rake:27:in `<top (required)>'
/opt/ruby/bin/bundle:23:in `load'
/opt/ruby/bin/bundle:23:in `<main>'
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

There is indeed no confirm_email task:

$ docker-compose run web bundle exec rake --tasks | grep confirm_email
Starting mastodon_db_1    ... done
Starting mastodon_redis_1 ... done
$

Any ideas?

Thank you.

[nightpool]

Linode's instructions are 7 months out of date. The correct invocation is
now through the tootctl command. See here:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/administration/post-installation/ under
"Creating an admin account"

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:29 AM Adriano Lucas [e-mail]
wrote:

I've installed Mastodon on Docker using the instruction at Linode
https://www.linode.com/docs/applications/messaging/install-mastodon-on-ubuntu-1604/#install-docker.
All is runnig fine, and I get to the registration page. I then want to
approve emails manually using the command:

docker-compose run web rails mastodon:confirm_email USER_EMAIL=
[email protected]

But the above command comes back with the following error:

Starting mastodon_db_1 ... done
Starting mastodon_redis_1 ... done
rake aborted!
Don't know how to build task 'mastodon:confirm_email' (See the list of available tasks with rake --tasks)
/opt/mastodon/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.6.0/gems/rake-12.3.2/exe/rake:27:in <top (required)>' /opt/ruby/bin/bundle:23:inload'
/opt/ruby/bin/bundle:23:in `

'
(See full trace by running task with --trace)

There is indeed no confirm_email task:

$ docker-compose run web bundle exec rake --tasks | grep confirm_email
Starting mastodon_db_1 ... done
Starting mastodon_redis_1 ... done

Any ideas?

Thank you.

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[ykzts]

rails mastodon:confirm_email has been obsoleted. You should use tootctl.

$ ./bin/tootctl modify --email [email protected] --confirm

[art-lucas]

For those using Docker, this is how I confirmed a given user (here, _myuser_)—there may be an easier way, though (Ubuntu 16.04, Mastodon v2.8.4):

docker~$ docker container ls | grep mastodon_web
CONTAINER ID        IMAGE                          ...
3545a72ba4f7        tootsuite/mastodon:v2.8.4      ...       mastodon_web_1
docker~$ docker exec -i -t 3545a72ba4f7 /bin/bash
mastodon@3545a72ba4f7:~$ 
mastodon@3545a72ba4f7:~$ RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl account modify myuser --confirm
OK
mastodon@3545a72ba4f7:~$

Give the user admin rights:

mastodon@3545a72ba4f7:~$ RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl accounts modify myuser --role admin
OK
mastodon@3545a72ba4f7:~$