On 16 August 2011 12:47, Huib Laurens <sterkebak(a)gmail.com> wrote: Assume that it is a company or community wiki that people are invited into. That means several accounts will be using the wiki and an administrator may not always be available to make it less private for a moment. It is not *my* account that is lost, it is another one's. Perhaps allow sysops to request passwordresets for other users?

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com> wrote: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/Manual:$wgWhitelistRe… Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

Am 16.08.2011 16:20, schrieb Casey Brown: Another related solution (needs a tiny core code change http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/specials/Sp… ) Patch to make SpecialPasswordReset only available to groups with a (new) minimum right "special-passwordreset-access" It can be done in a small extension, but why not making it part of the core ? - # add a new user right $wgAvailableRights[] = 'special-passwordreset-access'; # disallow all to access SpecialPasswordReset $wgGroupPermissions['*']['special-passwordreset-access'] = false; # but allow admins to access SpecialPasswordReset $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['special-passwordreset-access'] = true; change in http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/specials/Sp… parent::__construct('PasswordReset'); to parent::__construct('PasswordReset', 'special-passwordreset-access');