Re: [Mediawiki-l] WikiSysop User -- Bureaucrat Users

Rob, Wouldn't it be easier if I just reinstalled and set the bureaucrat user correctly? What would I see if logged in as bureaucrat that I'm not seeing now? Mike T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Church" <robchur(a)gmail.com> To: "Laptop Cartop" <mike(a)pathwaylearning.com>om>; "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:02 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] WikiSysop User -- Bureaucrat Users "WikiSysop" is the default name of the user created during installation. This user account has full bureaucrat and administrator permissions by default. During the install procedure, you are given the option to rename this account. If you have both your account, and the WikiSysop account, then the likely explanation is that you forgot to change this name during installation and, post install, created a new account. This new account probably doesn't have anything other than ordinary user permissions. User information is not held in a file, rather, it is held in the database MediaWiki uses to store data. Users are held in the "users" table. Direct modification of this table is possible, but ought to be done with caution. To grant the other user account these permissions, first get the internal ID number of the account; probably 2. Then, using a tool such as the phpMyAdmin mySQL administration utility, go into the user_groups table and add a new row. The ug_user field should contain the internal ID number of the user to be promoted (as above, this is probably 2), and the ug_group field should contain the text "bureaucrat". Hope this helps, Rob Church On 17/10/05, Laptop Cartop <laptop(a)feedbackhost.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l