Change email address or add an alternate email

Owned by Heather Willson
Last updated: Dec 11, 2023
2 min read

How can I change my login email?

Go to https://openprofile.dev

From the left side navigation pane click the arrow to expand, and navigate to Settings > Email Management. Your email addresses will be listed, and you can select 'Make Primary', select it for all 'Meeting Invitations' or 'Delete' for each.

To change your email address to a brand new email:

  • Click Add.
  • Provide the email address, and click the save button next to the field.
  • Shows pending verification.

  • Navigate to the email address inbox you have provided. Open the email that you received from The Linux Foundation: Email Verification, and click Verify Email.

  • Navigate back to Email Addresses window, and refresh the page.
  • You can select 'Make Primary' next to the alternate email address to make it your primary login email.
  • You can select 'Delete' next to an alternate email address to delete it.
    Note: You cannot delete the primary email address. You can have one primary email, and maximum 9 alternate email addresses.


Note - If the email address you are attempting to add is already associated with another account, you will be prompted to open a 'Merge' request with the support team HERE.  The prompt you will see is that the account already exists.  When you try to reset the password for it, however, it says that the email account doesn't exist.  


What is a merge request and what does it do?

A merge request is when you have multiple accounts that you want merged into one LF login.  This can happen for various reason, for example you register for an event with an email that you have not associated with a username.  


A merge example:

As an example, you have two email addresses but have only one username:

  1.  Email address:  mo1@yahoo.com
     Username:  (no username tied to this email)
  2. Email address:  mo2@yahoo.com
    Username:  mo2username

    In the above example, we would merge mo1@yahoo.com into the primary account of mo2@yahoo.com (with the username of mo2username).  After the merge, in the Individual Dashboard (located here), mo1@yahoo.com would be listed as an alternate email on your account.


Stipulations:

Please note that we cannot merge usernames with active training purchases or exams.Â