Hi Nina,
I don't know how crowded your wiki is, but when you are able to access
localsettings, you are able to change the rights of your '*'-group. You
could create a new account, grant all users to modify any user-rights, grant
your superuser all desired user-groups and then put back the original
settings. This only have to take seconds and I don't think it will cause
much trouble as long as you don't tell people the exact time you'll do this.
Faithfully,
D. (Sumurai8)
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McHale, Nina
Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 3:14 AM
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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Resetting admin password, LDAP enabled
Hi, all,
When we first launched our wiki, I had users create their own accounts. I
set an account, Wikiadmin, as a Bureaucrat and Sysop. Then, I implemented
the LDAP login. Problem is, I can't remember that Wikiadmin account password
now, and none of the password reset methods (using the changePassword.php
script or directly editing it in MySQL) will work. The user Wikiadmin does
not exist in our LDAP/AD environment-although we could create it-and
stupidly, it was the only account to which I gave elevated permissions
before setting up LDAP.
The only thing I can think of to try is to take off LDAP authentication
temporarily, reset the Wikiadmin password, and then put LDAP back. I'm
nervous about causing harm by doing this; thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Nina
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