[Systems] lost wiki password

[Frederick Grose]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at sugarlabs.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi guys, sorry to bother you, but I forgot my SL wiki password (login is
>> > SeanDaly). Can you please reset it, or did I miss an automated reset
>> feature
>> > somewhere?
>> >
>> > thanks
>> > Sean
>>
>> I'm speculating that with the addition of OpenID as a login option,
>> the method for password resets may have changed.  However, I'm a
>> little fuzzy on the details.
>>
>> I think it may take an SL sysadmin (as opposed to just a wiki b-crat,
>> for instance).  I looked at the various options for doing this via
>> Special pages (logged on as a b-crat), but I did not immediately see a
>> MW-accessible interface for doing this for you, or I would have done
>> it.
>>
>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Resetting_passwords
>>
>> Sorry I couldn't be more help.
>>
>> cjl
>
>
> It looks like we need an update to the LDAP Authentication extension.
> We are at version 1.2e, but v1.2g has this changelog entry (
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication/Changelog#v1.2g
> ):
> v1.2g
>
>    - Added fix to make mail me a password work again
>
>
> (Something for Bernie.)
>

Although, there may be more to it than that, because
wiki-devel.sugarlabs.org is at v2.0a and still responds to
http://wiki-devel.sugarlabs.org/go/Special:PasswordReset  with:

Internal error
Passwords cannot be changed
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