Manual:deleteLocalPasswords.php

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.32

MediaWiki file: deleteLocalPasswords.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.41.1 • 1.40.3 • 1.39.7
Classes:	DeleteLocalPasswords

Details

deleteLocalPasswords.php is a maintenance script that deletes local passwords for users.

This script is important when you merge your current wiki into a wiki farm and want to delete all local passwords from the database. It processes 100 items in every batch.

Options

Option	Description	Required
--user	If specified, only checks the given user	Optional
--delete	To prevent accidents, you must provide this flag to delete passwords	Optional
--prefix	Instead of deleting, make passwords invalid by prefixing with :null:. Make sure PasswordConfig has a 'null' entry. This is meant for testing before deletion.	Optional
--unprefix	Instead of deleting, undo the effect of --prefix	Optional

Although the 'delete', 'prefix', and 'unprefix' options are not required, one of them must be used.

Usage

php maintenance/deleteLocalPasswords.php [ --user| --delete| --prefix| --unprefix ]

Terminal

$ php maintenance/deleteLocalPasswords.php --delete

	 ... querying from ''
done. (wrote 4 rows)

See also

• Manual:$wgPasswordConfig
• Manual:ChangePassword.php
• Manual:WrapOldPasswords.php