[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki Administrative Rights

[Ira Goldstein]

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_administrative_rights  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