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Hi,

During the installation process, in the configuration form 'http://[myWiki]/config/index.php', if we put the same value for the login and the password of the administrator account (eg:  Login : 'Admin' and password : 'Admin'), the installation fails without showing the message 'Your password is invalid or too short. It must have at least 0 characters and be different from your username.'

In fact MediaWiki throw an Exception which is apparently not catched and displayed. I think this message should be displayed in order to found out what was wrong with the values that I put in the config form. 

In the script 'config/index.php' I catched and displayed the Exception in order to find out what was the issue:


if( $conf->SysopName ) {
   $u = User::newFromName( $conf->getSysopName() );
   if ( !$u ) {
      print "<li><strong class=\"error\">Warning:</strong> Skipped sysop account creation - invalid username!</li>\n";
   }
   else if ( 0 == $u->idForName() ) {

      try{
         $u->addToDatabase();
         $u->setPassword( $conf->getSysopPass() );
         $u->saveSettings();

         $u->addGroup( "sysop" );
         $u->addGroup( "bureaucrat" );

         print "<li>Created sysop account <tt>" .htmlspecialchars( $conf->SysopName ) . "</tt>.</li>\n";

      }catch(Exception $oException){
         die('Exception: '.$oException->getMessage());

      }

      } else {
            print "<li>Could not create user - already exists!</li>\n";
      }
      } else {
            print "<li>Skipped sysop account creation, no name given.</li>\n";
      }

...

Thank you. 

Alex