Jack This is something I am doing through SQL with our three wikis. Although I am sure it isn't quite the 'wiki-way' we have chosen to prevent access to Special:Preferences and to control preferences through other means. This is primarily to try to ensure a consistent UE and to prevent preference related issues. For example, if you allow users to turn off the toolbar (toolbar=0) then this causes the Google Maps extension to become invisible to them! For most of the settings we change them by altering the relevant setting within the user_options BLOB inside the user table. UPDATE user SET user_options=REPLACE(user_options,"old_value","new_value"); If you want to do this for a specific user just add 'WHERE user_id=xx' to the end. For a few flags we provide the user with anther page where they can make some selections within our Drupal platform. These are also effected though a standard SQL statement. When a new user is created we have a set of 75 settings which are written automatically into the user's user_options field giving them our standard starting point. Hope some of this helps. Paul On 6/14/07 7:53 AM, "Jack Eapen C" <jackec(a)suntecgroup.com> wrote:

Can't do this with the plugin (currently). Maybe there is a way to do this through other means? You may be able to modify the plugin, adding the settings you want into initUser, and updateUser methods. Turn off email verification (don't remember the exact MediaWiki option), and set: $wgLDAPRetrievePrefs = array("domain"=>true) V/r, Ryan Lane