I've just installed MediaWiki 1.4.4 under Suse and have a newbie question.
I want to set up an administrative user and went to the documantation at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Administration#Getting_administ... and tried to follow the listed steps, but came up with an "ERROR 1054: Unkown column 'user_rights' in 'field list'.
Using phpMyAdmin to look at the user table in fact shows that there isn't a user_rights field, but that there is a user_rights table, with a ur_rights binary field. Manually changing the ur_rights from 0 to 1 did not seem to enhance the user's access.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks --Ira
On 7/5/05, Ira Goldstein igoldste@gw.neric.org wrote:
I've just installed MediaWiki 1.4.4 under Suse and have a newbie question.
I want to set up an administrative user and went to the documantation at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Documentation:Administration#Getting_administ... and tried to follow the listed steps, but came up with an "ERROR 1054: Unkown column 'user_rights' in 'field list'.
Using phpMyAdmin to look at the user table in fact shows that there isn't a user_rights field, but that there is a user_rights table, with a ur_rights binary field. Manually changing the ur_rights from 0 to 1 did not seem to enhance the user's access.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
There is some updated info which describes the changes made in 1.4 here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Setting_user_rights_in_MediaWiki
Note that the upcoming 1.5 has a new model for permissions with concomittant database schema changes.
And replying to myself, the article I mentioned says that the user needs to log out and back in for any changes to be effective.
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