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Manually expiring user passwords in MW 1.23

2 comments • 08:17, 10 July 2014 9 years ago

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Nha4601 (talkcontribs)

Tracked in Bugzilla
Bug 67792

The Release notes/1.23#New features in 1.23 states that "Admins can expire users users passwords manually..." I'm a relatively new admin - the only instructions / information I could find on how to do this was on the Manual:user table#user_password_expires page. The manual states that the date a user's password expires (user_password_expires) can be set manually - see below:

"...Can also be set manually by calling User->expirePassword()."

What does this mean? How do I call User->expirePassword()? Is this from a terminal screen? Any additional information or examples would be helpful. I'm still fairly new to MediaWiki.

MediaWiki 1.23.1; PHP 5.4.20; MySQL 5.6.14; Private enterprise knowledge management wiki hosted on Windows 7.

-Thanks!

Reply Edited by Florianschmidtwelzow 08:16, 10 July 2014 9 years ago

Florianschmidtwelzow (talkcontribs)

Hello,

there isn't a gui for now, which enables you to expire the password of a user. the expirePassword() is a function of the User object which can be used in maintenance scripts e.g. or in extensions or something else :)

P.S.: Tracked as feature request on bugzilla bug 67792

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