[Mediawiki-l] Changing user names in the DB
Gary Kirk
gary.kirk at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 18:26:58 UTC 2007
Bureaucrats can remand users if you install the Renameuser extension
from mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Renameuser
Hope this helps, I don't know about passwords.
Gary
On 9/6/07, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] <sullivan at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> Can usernames be changed? I know users cannot be deleted and I do not
> want to do that, but we have a situation where the authentication
> mechanism is moving from local accounts created in the wiki to an
> external authentication mechanism, so, for example, user "joe" is user
> "joed" in the external authentication mechanism. Is there a way to
> change the user "joe" to "joed" in the wiki database? The page
> histories can show either user ID, that is not important. Also, I'll
> need to set all the user passwords to null. I suspect I'll need to do
> that through an SQL routine but if there is a better way...
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or ideas...
>
> -Jim
>
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