[Mediawiki-l] Admin username wrong?

Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 22:52:29 UTC 2007


On 6/29/07, Matt Gallisdorfer <matgallis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I recently finished my mediawiki install and found the admin username I
> created is invalid?  Is there another way to change the admin username or
> make a different username an admin?
>
I would guess it's actually the password that you've got wrong (you can look
at what the username is at Special:Listusers).  You can change it:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_reset_a_password.3F

If it actually is the username that you need to change, then you could do it
manually in the database, or you could just use createAndPromote.php:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#Initial_user_was_not_created_by_installer

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