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(a)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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