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Create users by the admin did not work

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91.229.57.240 (talkcontribs)

Hi, When creating a rather restricted Wiki (MediaWiki 1.25.1), I set:

$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

Then I created the users (Create Acccount) as admin and I did set "Use a temporary random password and send it to the specified email address". The users all got a mail with their username and a temporary passwort. But login with the temporary password did not work.

Do I have to do additional steps to 'enable' the users?

In the database there is no (hashed) password for the new users: select user_password from user where user_name='USERNAME'; returns an empty field. Shouldn't that contain the hashed (temporary) password?


Best regards

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)
88.130.70.226 (talkcontribs)

I thought that as well, but I didn't write it, as -if I got it right- we are not speaking about confirmation emails here.

Florianschmidtwelzow (talkcontribs)

Have you checked your server logs? Are there any related error/warning/notice messages?

79.86.101.240 (talkcontribs)

I think that I have the same problem with version 1.25.1 Did you find a proper solution?

I found a workaround by telling the new users to use the lost password button, which would send them a new random password, which works OK.

79.87.177.222 (talkcontribs)
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