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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Mediawiki Extension: Password Reset==<br />
Sometimes you as a Mediawiki administrator might feel the need to reset a user's password manually. Unfortunately, there is no such function in the MediaWiki software. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/ Bogus!] But fortunately, there now exists an extension that adds this functionality. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096928/ Most excellent!]<br />
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==Adding the extension==<br />
First, download the five files that make up the Password Reset extension from here: [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Password_Reset Mediawiki Extension:Password Reset]. These five files are to be placed in the extension directory of your Debian MediaWiki installation, presumably '' /usr/share/mediawiki-extensions''. Make sure these five files are owned by root, and cannot be edited by anyone else. As root:<br />
cd /usr/share/mediawiki-extensions<br />
chown root:root PasswordReset*<br />
chmod 644 PasswordReset*<br />
Next, mark the extension available to MediaWiki:<br />
cd /etc/mediawiki-extensions/extensions-available<br />
ln -s /usr/share/mediawiki-extensions/PasswordReset.php<br />
Then, enable the extension (either by using the ''mwenext'' command, or by this):<br />
cd /etc/mediawiki-extensions/extensions-enabled<br />
ln -s ../extensions-available/PasswordReset.php<br />
Finally, grant the permission to use this extension to some group (presumably a very ''limited'' group!!). To this end, add something like the following to the file ''/etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php'':<br />
#Account management<br />
# PasswordReset extension adds the following capability<br />
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['passwordreset'] = true;<br />
This adds the Password Reset capability to the Mediawiki administrator group "bureaucrat", of which WikiAdmin is a member - and presumably you too.<br />
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==Using the extension==<br />
To reset a user's password, you need the following:<br />
* your MediaWiki user account needs to be in a MediaWiki group that has been granted the right to use PasswordReset, e.g. ''bureaucrat'' as depicted above<br />
* you must be logged in with that MediaWiki account<br />
* you need to know the exact name of the MediaWiki account for which to reset the password<br />
In the left navigation area, click on ''Special pages''; scroll down to the section ''Restricted special pages'', you should see an entry ''Password reset''. Click it to enter the Password Reset special page. The interface is very simple: Username, New password, Confirm new password, and a button "Reset password". What more do you need?</div>Saruman!