On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:25 AM, kcrisman <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>>> trac and wiki accounts used to be linked (same username, same password).
>>> I
>>> changed my password on trac and it worked, but i can not use it on the
>>> wiki. Unfortunately, i am travelling and i do not have access to my
>>> previous password. How are the two system currently related ?
>>>
>>
>> Not at all. You can't currently change your wiki password. Basically
>> through a series of hacks, we had hooked the wiki's authentication up to
>> trac, but I think that broke when the wiki was moved off of boxen last
>> summer.
>>
>>
> Oh, was that heavily advertised?  I think we probably still have quite a
> bit of documentation that says both have the same password...
>

It was probably an oversight. I only realized that this was the case within
the last week or so.


>
>
>
>> On a slight tangent: I personally don't care for our current wiki,
>> MediaWiki -- it has caused us numerous issues over the years (e.g. memory
>> hog on boxen), and is a bit of a pain to administer. I'm not really aware
>> of any modern wiki platforms (other than gollum, which didn't handle large
>> wikis like ours when I checked it out 1.5 years ago), but if anyone has any
>> thoughts on the matter I would be happy to discuss it (maybe in a different
>> thread).
>>
>
> I don't know that moving all that content/links would be worth the effort.
>

We could setup a redirect, or apply a regex during such a transition, so
changing links is not really an issue. Moving content is worthwhile if it
is a noticeable reduction in maintenance.

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