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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mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of McHale, Nina Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 3:14 AM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org 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,

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