This may help though I'm not sure :) I have logged in as Admin and can see - Reset Password under Users and rights Special Page http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:ChangePassword.php http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords#Use_the_changePass… -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of John Horne Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 3:38 PM To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Special page - changing passwords - how? Hello, I am new to Mediawiki, in fact wikis generally, so apologies if this is not the right list to ask for help. (If it isn't, then where do we get general help from?) We are using version 1.19.2 with the LDAPAuthentication extension. However, we are also allowing some local (wiki) accounts (we've modified the extension a little). What we would like is a 'Special' page to allow the local account users to be able to change their password (on their wiki account). I can see that there is mention of a 'passwordreset' permission in the Mediawiki code, and it looks like a special page already exists to allow password changes. However, I cannot get this to work - setting the permission and logging in, I see no special page relating to password changes. Could someone please let me know what is required in order to see this special page? Thanks, John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l ============================================================================================================================Disclaimer: This message and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Tech Mahindra policy statement, you may review the policy at <a href="http://www.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html">http://www.… externally and <a href="http://tim.techmahindra.com/tim/disclaimer.html">http://… internally within Tech Mahindra.============================================================================================================================

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 12:29 +0200, Frank Ralf wrote: Hello, Yes, I saw that but still cannot get it to work. We do not want to allow users to use email, and the wiki users have no access to the server itself (so can't use the command line). But the document says: ================================= Use Special:PasswordReset Special:PasswordReset allows accounts with the 'passwordreset' permission to reset account passwords for the local installation of MediaWiki. ================================= I set the relevant permission on my sysop/administrator account, but didn't see the special page. Even setting all the email permissions, it still didn't appear. John. -- John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Plymouth University, UK Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001

On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 11:08 +0100, John Horne wrote: Many thanks for the replies. The problem was with the LDAPAuthentication extension. It has a function used to see if the user is allowed to change passwords. This was always returning 'false', so the 'Reset password' special page never appeared (that is, there was no link to the page in the 'Users and rights' special page). Once I had sorted the function out, then the link appeared. Thanks, John. -- John Horne, Plymouth University, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 Fax: +44 (0)1752 587001