https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30636
--- Comment #18 from Happy-melon <[email protected]> 2011-09-24 14:51:44 UTC --- (In reply to comment #17) > That would be great, provided this happens before the release of 1.18. Else: I'm certainly happy to develop a solution to this issue, provided that it's the right solution. > The extension ResetPassword exists for many years and is used. It may not be > the best possible solution, but it is the _only available_ solution. To my > knowledge and to all participating in this bug discussion, mediawiki core > provides no alternative. Can you walk us through the usecase for this functionality? Not what you want the software to provide, but what you want users to be able to achieve? What scenario begins with Joe Bloggs sitting down at his desk, and ends with James Admin using this extension to change Joe Bloggs' password to 'foobar'? > The present mediawiki core reset password requires an > email, but mediawiki has never been built so that you cannot create a user > without registering an email. Setting $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true requires a valid email address to complete the account creation. I appreciate that that's not a particularly obvious configuration to stumble upon, but the functionality is available (and has been since 1.11 - bug 11629). > Whatever the status of the ResetPassword special page > previously was, 1.18 alpha presently is the first mediawiki version where you > cannot reset the password of a user without an email. This is, to my mind, the biggest problem. -- 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
