[Mediawiki-l] users password is not persistent

[Sulka Haro]

The three questions that come to mind are:

1) Which version of MediaWiki are you running?
2) Have you installed any extensions?
3) Is there a chance that someone's modified your copy of MediaWiki? I'd
assume a poorly programmed trojan (password stealing utility) might cause
the type of symptoms you're describing.

sulka

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Riccardo Veraldi <
Riccardo.Veraldi at cnaf.infn.it> wrote:

> Hello,
> i looked into the DB.
>
> every time I logon as WikiSysop the password si disabled.
> I reset the password with changePassword.php an it is changed in the DB
> nd I can logon.
>
> after I login the password is set to nologin
>
> mysql> select user_password,user_newpassword from user where user_name
> like "%WikiSysop%";
> +---------------+------------------+
> | user_password | user_newpassword |
> +---------------+------------------+
> | nologin       |                  |
> +---------------+------------------+
> 1 row in set (0.01 sec)
>
>
> is there a way to disable this behaviour ?
>
> thanks
>
> Rick
>
>
> On 12/7/10 4:32 PM, Platonides wrote:
> > Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
> >> hello,
> >> when I try to cahnge a user password with  changePassword.php
> >> maintenance program,
> >> password is correctly changed and user can logon.
> >>
> >> but if I restart mysql daemon, user cannot logon anymore, because
> >> passsword does not work.
> >>
> >> Looks like password is stored only untli mysql is restarted
> >>
> >> the sames also happens changing password manually inside the user table
> >> in the wiki database
> >> any clue ?
> >>
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> Rick
> > Is other data stored in mysql kept on restart?
> > This looks like mysql unable to save things to disk and keeping it in
> > memory until it stops.
> > Maybe its file is being replaced and the changes are written to a
> > deleted inode?
> >
> >
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