[Mediawiki-l] users password is not persistent

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Thu Dec 30 18:40:11 UTC 2010


Riccardo Veraldi 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

Mediawiki does not do that. Do you have any
password-related extension? LDAP maybe?
Looks like you change your password and then some policy determines that
your account is expired and disables you back.




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