"dan nessett" dnessett@yahoo.com wrote in message news:630381.19130.qm@web32503.mail.mud.yahoo.com...
I also would appreciate some feedback on the following question. One of the tests referenced the global variables $wgDBadminname and $wgDBadminuser. When I ran the configuration script during Mediawiki installation on my machine, the LocalSettings.php file created defined the globals $wgDBname and $wgDBuser. So, I changed the test to use these variables rather than the 'admin' versions. However, I don't remember if the script gave me a choice to use the 'admin' versions or not. Also, if the configuration script has changed, then some installations may use the 'admin' versions and some may not. In either case, I would have to modify the bug fix to accept both types of global variable. If someone would fill me in, I can make any required changes to the bug fix.
I think these are to allow you to define a separate MySQL user (in adminsettings.php) that can be given higher privileges, as a security device. IIRC this is now deprecated (cf bug18768).
--HM