Hi Nina, I don't know how crowded your wiki is, but when you are able to access localsettings, you are able to change the rights of your '*'-group. You could create a new account, grant all users to modify any user-rights, grant your superuser all desired user-groups and then put back the original settings. This only have to take seconds and I don't think it will cause much trouble as long as you don't tell people the exact time you'll do this.
Faithfully, D. (Sumurai8) From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of McHale, Nina > Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 3:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Resetting admin password, LDAP enabled > > > Hi, all, > > When we first launched our wiki, I had users create their own accounts. I > set an account, Wikiadmin, as a Bureaucrat and Sysop. Then, I implemented > the LDAP login. Problem is, I can't remember that Wikiadmin account password > now, and none of the password reset methods (using the changePassword.php > script or directly editing it in MySQL) will work. The user Wikiadmin does > not exist in our LDAP/AD environment-although we could create it-and > stupidly, it was the only account to which I gave elevated permissions > before setting up LDAP. > > The only thing I can think of to try is to take off LDAP authentication > temporarily, reset the Wikiadmin password, and then put LDAP back. I'm > nervous about causing harm by doing this; thoughts? > > Thanks in advance, > > Nina > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
