Author: sy1234
Description:
At present there is no functionality for a user to get or reset their password,
if email functions have been disabled in LocalSettings.php
One solution would be to allow an administrator/beaurocrat (or just the one wiki
admin?) to edit a user's password.
Version: 1.5.x
Severity: enhancement
robchur wrote:
There's a setPassword maintenance script for this. I might write an extension
which adds a special page to allow resetting of passwords, if desired, but I
would (personally, anyway) be leery of having this in core code.
sy1234 wrote:
A special page which acts as a gateway to that particular maintainance script
would indeed be handy.. but I've heard others say the same thing.. that they
don't want any special page gateways to scripts like that.
I'll agree. This script is fine for my purposes.. being able to ssh in and run
it for this one-off case is good enough.
However, maybe some kind of administrator page within the wiki should list and
talk about the various scripts like this. There isn't any inline documentation.
Or I suppose this ought to go onto the heap of other documentation that needs to
somehow get created as an importable documentation package. I'll put it on my
mental todo list for when work like that begins.
Closing this as wontfix, as there's a very good workaround.
robchur wrote:
The special page wouldn't be a "gateway" - it would be self-contained. :-D