From: Prodos (Melbourne, Australia)
Good evening.
In an earlier post, I wrote:
I've followed the instructions at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access
... which prevents a new user from creating an account but which should still allow me as admin to create a new account, but I just can't make it work.
Here are the instructions that I've been following from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access
In order to prevent new user registrations, the following line could be added to the LocalSettings.php file: $wgWhitelistAccount = array ( "sysop" => 1, "developer" => 1 );
Note: New users will still be able to be created by sysops, in the following manner:
Go to [[Special:Userlogin]], when logged in as a sysop. Enter a username and an email address, and click the "by email" button. The account will be created with a random password which is then emailed to the given address.
However, when I do all this I just get a note in red saying:
"You have not specified a valid user name."
I worked out that when I made the first letter of the username UPPER-case it all worked like a dream!
I've been struggling with this for 2 weeks. Sheesh!
It seems that usernames that are all lower-case are rejected!
Why should that be? I don't get it.
Is there some way to allow all-lower-case usernames?
Best Wishes,