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In a marathon session setting up our website, my tech help installed our wiki and pointed me to the mediawiki site to configure it. Unfortunately although some of the setup info was noted, I failed to write down the admin username, and in the month of other projects that intervened, neither of us can remember it. I can access the wiki and of course I can configure LocalSettings.php on the server along with the files in the wiki folder, but cannot login as the administrator. How can I retrieve or reset my login? MichaelM : http://perfectenvirons.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page MediaWiki1.18.1

Hi!

You can try going to phpMyAdmin (or any other tool you use to manage your databases) and look for the 'user' table.

It's even easier: The page Special:ListUsers holds a list of those users. The username is Michael.

You are awesome. Thank you.

I have tried this route and changed the bin password file, yet my user name still cant get access?

I don't know what bin password file you are talking about. Passwords for MediaWiki users are stored inside the database and can be changed using the changePassword.php maintenance script.