Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:04:53 UTC
At present there is no functionality for a user to get or reset their password, if email functions have been disabled in LocalSettings.php One solution would be to allow an administrator/beaurocrat (or just the one wiki admin?) to edit a user's password.
There's a setPassword maintenance script for this. I might write an extension which adds a special page to allow resetting of passwords, if desired, but I would (personally, anyway) be leery of having this in core code.
A special page which acts as a gateway to that particular maintainance script would indeed be handy.. but I've heard others say the same thing.. that they don't want any special page gateways to scripts like that. I'll agree. This script is fine for my purposes.. being able to ssh in and run it for this one-off case is good enough. However, maybe some kind of administrator page within the wiki should list and talk about the various scripts like this. There isn't any inline documentation. Or I suppose this ought to go onto the heap of other documentation that needs to somehow get created as an importable documentation package. I'll put it on my mental todo list for when work like that begins. Closing this as wontfix, as there's a very good workaround.
The special page wouldn't be a "gateway" - it would be self-contained. :-D
