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"Some"? The fact that you have to manually access the database backend in order to change a password is a joke, among many.
by omegote 6y ago
"Some"? The fact that you have to manually access the database backend in order to change a password is a joke, among many.
- kemayo 6y agoThere's a bunch of ways which don't involve manual database access? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords
- bawolff 6y agoIf its your own password you can change from the web interface. If it is someone else's password you can send a password reset email from the web interface. To actually set someone else's password to a specific value does require running a command line script (not the same as going into db). In my view that is a reasonable security-convinence trade off. In any case, i would assume a large org would use a single-sign-on extension and not mediawiki's native user management, which would make MW's password management moot. Disclaimer: am mediawiki developer