https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30636
--- Comment #16 from Happy-melon <[email protected]> 2011-09-24 11:53:23 UTC --- (In reply to comment #15) > (In reply to comment #12) > The use case where this extension is needed is mediawiki installations with > managed users. Typically users are not creating their accounts themselves, an > admin has done it for for them. Often a substantial fraction of users has only > limited training for specific tasks, not full understanding of mediawiki > special pages. Replacing forgotten passwords is an admin responsibility. While > logging would be nice, it is not absolutely required. In no circumstances is administrators knowing other users' plaintext passwords a sensible security policy, even on a managed wiki (of which I run several). I'd be happy to consider implementing either a SwitchUser functionality or a root password, both with proper logging. > If changing the special page name of the extension is the best possible > solution, it is better than to break all managed mediawiki installations. > There > are doubtlessly many extensions outside of the WMF managed SVN repository, and > respecting their special page names is not expected. the WMF SVN extensions are not "managed"; no *guarantee* is made by the core developers that they will not break them (that guarrantee is only available for extensions used on the Wikimedia cluster). We do *try* not to break them, but it is only a best effort. > I am not sure, however, > why mw core must break a mediawiki.org SVN managed extension without a good > reason. If there is a good reason that the core page must be the preoccupied > "PasswordReset" instead of the (to my knowledge) available "ResetPassword" > then > please change the extension special page name. ResetPassword is not free because it has for many years been defined as an alias to ChangePassword (which used to be called Resetpass). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
