On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 12:29 +0200, Frank Ralf wrote:
I can see that
there is mention of a 'passwordreset' permission in the
Mediawiki code, and it looks like a special page already exists to allow
password changes. However, I cannot get this to work - setting the
permission and logging in, I see no special page relating to password
changes. Could someone please let me know what is required in order to
see this special page?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords might give
you some pointers.
Hello,
Yes, I saw that but still cannot get it to work. We do not want to allow
users to use email, and the wiki users have no access to the server
itself (so can't use the command line). But the document says:
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Use Special:PasswordReset
Special:PasswordReset allows accounts with the 'passwordreset'
permission to reset account passwords for the local installation of
MediaWiki.
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I set the relevant permission on my sysop/administrator account, but
didn't see the special page. Even setting all the email permissions, it
still didn't appear.
John.
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