I think they mean where an account has been made and given rights before
the user account is logged into, thus making it not a bug.
On 03/08/10 01:22, Q wrote:
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>> Say, I noticed on Wikia o
On 03/08/10 01:18, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> Say, I noticed on Wikia one can make a user an administrator, even if he
> has never logged in yet.
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> This exposes a security risk. A bureaucrat pre-makes some accounts for
> future administrators, but before they establish accounts, somebody else
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On 8/2/2010 7:18 PM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote:
> Say, I noticed on Wikia one can make a user an administrator, even if he
> has never logged in yet.
>
> This exposes a security risk. A bureaucrat pre-makes some accounts for
> future administrators,
Say, I noticed on Wikia one can make a user an administrator, even if he
has never logged in yet.
This exposes a security risk. A bureaucrat pre-makes some accounts for
future administrators, but before they establish accounts, somebody else
establishes an account with that name, and becomes an in
Scheid, Bernhard wrote:
> Is there a magic word or a parameter to a magic word in order to refer to the
> pagename of an included page (i.e. to Bar, if you include {{Foo:Bar}} ) ?
>
> Thx
>
> Bernhard
No. Pagename and friends will refer to the page you are viewing. If you
want Bar inside [[Foo:
Michael Kingery (HL7) wrote:
> I do want to give all logged-in users the right to protect a page. My
> understanding is that this setting does not impact who can edit a
> protected page. It asks you for that when you protect the page, and I
> tell it that I only want sysops to be able to edit the p
Is there a magic word or a parameter to a magic word in order to refer to the
pagename of an included page (i.e. to Bar, if you include {{Foo:Bar}} ) ?
Thx
Bernhard
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On 10-07-30 12:35 AM, Tim Starling wrote:
> They make the point that 95% of MediaWiki installations have a
> "serious vulnerability"
And this is based only on the version tag? Let's not forget that people
who install Mediawiki with packages from their distribution are late in
terms of version, but
I'm not sure I understand your suggestion. The list of keys on the
protection page are correct, they include the sysops which is what I
want to set the page protection level to. I don't need to add anything
to that list.
The problem is that when I set the page to be protected and editable by
only
I do want to give all logged-in users the right to protect a page. My
understanding is that this setting does not impact who can edit a
protected page. It asks you for that when you protect the page, and I
tell it that I only want sysops to be able to edit the page, but it's
allowing anyone to edit
On Monday 02 August 2010 00:07:39 K. Peachey wrote:
> We don't have OpenID
support by default, Have you installed one of the
> extensions to provide
this functionality?
>
Ah - of course! I missed that - sorry! Yes, now I
will study the extension page. Thanks for the pointer.
Anne
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