[Mediawiki-l] Resetting a forgotten password

[Brion Vibber]

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On 1/17/06, Sy Ali <sy1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hmm.. it might be more simple to just delete the user out of that
>> table and create it again.
> 
> DON'T DO THAT!
> 
> The user id is used as a foreign key in other tables.  Mediawiki kind
> of depends on User records being permanent.

Do it if you like, but be aware it may cause occasional.

In particular, note that if you delete a user record, anyone can now create a
new user account with the same name, but it will have a different user id
number. In addition to being confusing and annoying, this can cause mismatches
where things can't be looked up that matched the old user.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)


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