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| + | #redirect [[MediaWiki SQL queries#Reset a user password]] |
| − | |description = Use this process to set the password for a MediaWiki user.
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| − | |role = Sysop
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| − | |status = in use
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| − | Before reading further consider the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Password_Reset password reset extension] which gives a simple form to reset wiki passwords.
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| − | You need to log in to the database directly. First obtain the user's id as in the following example (alternatively, go to [[Special:Userlist]] and get the id from there):
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| − | <source lang="mysql">
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| − | SELECT user_id FROM prefix_user WHERE user_name='WikiSysop';
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| − | </source>
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| − | Then apply the query shown in the following example to set the password for that user id (here the '''WikiSysop''' user id is 1):
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| − | Note that the password is a nested concatenation of both the md5 of the user_id combined with the md5 password.
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| − | <source lang="mysql">
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| − | UPDATE prefix_user SET user_password=md5(CONCAT('1-',md5('newpassword'))) WHERE user_id=1;
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| − | </source>
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| − | ==See also==
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| − | *[[SQL#Reset a password]]
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| − | *[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Password_Reset Extension for resetting passwords]
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