[Mediawiki-l] How to reset Wiki Admin's user name and password (from server command line)?

[Rob Church]

On 24/05/06, Ken McDonald <ken at pixologic.com> wrote:
> Due no doubt to a mistake on my part, I know find that the user name and
> p/w I thought I'd specified for the wiki admin during setup weren't
> actually what went through. There is an account called "wikiadmin", so
> perhaps I somehow submitted the defaults.
>
> In any case, could someone please explain, or direct me to instructions,
> to change the wiki admin account name and password? I have full access
> to both the server and the wiki DB. Surely someone has lost or forgotten
> their password before :-)

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=MediaWiki+password+MD5 throws up some
nice results.


Rob Church