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Extension:Sudo

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Manuel des extensions MediaWiki
Sudo
État de la version : non-maintenu
Implémentation Identité de l'utilisateur
Description Gives the ability for Sudoers on the wiki to login to other users' accounts.
Auteur(s) Daniel Friesen (Dantmandiscussion)
Dernière version 0.6.0 (2018-06-29)
MediaWiki >= 1.40.0
Modifie la base
de données
Non
Licence Licence publique générale GNU v2.0 ou supérieur
Téléchargement
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The Sudo extension enables granting trusted users the ability to "impersonate" other users, as if they had logged with the account of impersonated users. Its name refers to Unix’s sudo command, which has a similar purpose. This may be used for helping users set their own preferences, changing things under their name or testing how the UI behaves with their account, for example to see effective permissions.

Usage

Users with the sudo permission can temporarily "switch" to any other user using Special:Sudo.

This extension no longer allows changing the email address of an account without knowing its password.

Security

Logging is limited; switches to another user account via Sudo are logged, however there is no tracking of which actions are performed through impersonation. Be careful who you give the permission to, as it can be abused in the worst of ways.

Installation

Configuration

The user right "sudo" will have to be set for an existing user group, e.g. "bureaucrat" or preferably for a new user group:

$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['sudo'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sudo']['sudo'] = true;

Known issues

See phab:maniphest/query/Uaw4sPCoSHql/#R.