McHale, Nina wrote:
Hi, all,
I am going crazy trying to reset the password for my only administrative user! :( I took
the LDAP authentication method that we had in place off-thanks to Ryan and Christine for
their advice on this-and then tried to use the "email password" option on the
wiki login screen (as the user name "Wikiadmin" doesn't exist in LDAP), and
there is no email address associated with the user! (Fail!!!)
I've tried these methods:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ#How_do_I_reset_a_password.3F
...and the php method gives the error that it can't open the file,
If you are on the wiki root, run
php maintenance/changePassword.php --user=someuser --password=somepass
and the MySQL methods result in syntax errors.
Works fine for me. Which mysql version are you using?
There is no setting for $wgPasswordSalt in my
LocalSettings.php file; could this be why the MySQL method is failing?
No.
Any other ideas?
Would the Password Reset extension help?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Password_Reset
It may make it more straightforward.
Or, can I associate my email address with the
Wikiadmin user directly in the user table in MySQL?
Yes. Assign the user_email field in the db.