Is there anyway a wiki administrator can reset a password for a user? What would be nice is if the adminsitrator could access the Special:Preferences page for other users. Is there any way to do that?
We're encountering a configuration problem on our domain and emails are not going out from certain servers, including the server hosting our wiki. We discovered this because we had created new accounts for some users on the wiki and those users never received the email invitation. We've since tried sending out new email reminders for existing users and they didn't get the emails.
For the new users, we've even though about deleting the user and re-creating them but there's apparently no way to delete a user. Even though we know these new users haven't ever logged in, so there's no question about their user id ever being in use.
Unfortunately, because of the email problem we're having, we now have users that can't get into the wiki and we can't figure out a way to reset their passwords for them.
I've thought about going into the SQL database and seeing if there is a user table that might just use the standard PASSWORD() results for the password data. But before I go poking around inside the sql data, I thought I'd better ask this list for possible suggestions.
thanks,
dEVoN