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Bug 12602 - Users with '@' in their username can not have their userrights changed
Users with '@' in their username can not have their userrights changed
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 13135
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Special pages (Other open bugs)
1.12.x
All All
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2008-01-12 18:53 UTC by Prodego
Modified: 2008-02-28 00:05 UTC (History)
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Description Prodego 2008-01-12 18:53:20 UTC
The way Special:Userrights is written causes it to stop reading username once it reaches a @ symbol, and then check for the -interwiki right. While this would work on a new installation, it lacks backwards compatibility for wikis that have users with an @ symbol in their username, before this was disallowed. The software thinks you are changing a user at another wiki, not a local user with @ in their name. While a user with the -interwiki right might be able to do username@whatever@wikiname [not tested], this is still an issue.
Comment 1 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2008-01-12 23:41:52 UTC
The bug is that the at-sign hasn't yet been removed from existing usernames.  It's supposed to be invalid.  See bug 12581 (which would also resolve this, so I'll mark this as duplicate).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12581 ***
Comment 2 Aryeh Gregor (not reading bugmail, please e-mail directly) 2008-02-28 00:05:12 UTC
This can be considered fixed by the fix for bug 13135.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13135 ***

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