Extension:EditUser

From MediaWiki.org
Jump to: navigation, search


MediaWiki extensions manual - list
Crystal Clear action run.png
Edit User

Release status: stable

Implementation Special page, User identity
Description Allows privileged users to edit other users' preferences
Author(s) Ryan Schmidt (SkizzerzTalk)
Last version 1.7.0
MediaWiki 1.18 - 1.19 (1.11-1.17 for older versions)
License GPL
Download Download snapshot
Subversion [Help]

Browse source code
View code changes

Usage

Added rights

edituser, edituser-exempt

Check usage (experimental)

Contents

[edit] Usage

This extension displays a preferences form (like the one in Special:Preferences, Special:EditUser) that allows editing the preferences of other users. You can call the page via Special:EditUser/username to directly edit a user, or Special:EditUser to display a search form. Users with the edituser-exempt permission cannot be edited via this form.

Warning Warning: Only grant access to this extension to users you trust. Accounts can literally be taken over from use of this extension.

[edit] Default permissions

$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['edituser'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['edituser-exempt'] = true;

[edit] Download instructions

Warning Warning: This extension is no longer being maintained. It is functional for versions 1.11 to 1.19 of MediaWiki. The extension will not work on other versions of MediaWiki. In addition, any bugs or security flaws present in the current versions will not be fixed. You have been warned!

Download the extension from the Subversion repository and save it into the extensions/EditUser directory of your wiki. If you have shell access to your server, you may do the following to download the extension.

Warning: Before you download read Requirements or you might install the wrong version:

cd extensions
svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/EditUser


[edit] Installation

To install this extension, add the following to LocalSettings.php:

require_once("$IP/extensions/EditUser/EditUser.php");

[edit] MediaWiki 1.16 Installation Notes

To make it working in version 1.16 you need to create a symbolic link:

extensions/EditUser$ ln -s 1.15 1.16

Note: It seems to be working, but it's still untested.

Personal tools
Namespaces
Variants
Actions
Site
Support
Download
Development
Communication
Print/export
Toolbox