On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Rowe, Dolores A
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Teammates,
>
> I am looking at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords and 
> would like to use
> Special:PasswordReset.
>
> I have set the following property in LocalSettings.php:
> $wgGroupPermissions['sysop' ]['passwordreset'] = true;
>
> Also I am a sysop, and I am logged in.  However, when the form comes up, it 
> does not put up the input box where I can
> type in the user's email.  It's MediaWiki 1.22.8.

Do you mean that the Username box isn't presented?  You use the
Username to reset passwords, not the Email.  If you know the Email
address only, you have to query the database to find the associated
Username.

>
> Does anyone see what I am doing wrong ?
> thanks,
> Lori
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