Re: [Mediawiki-l] users password is not persistent

2010-12-30 Thread Platonides
>> Mediawiki does not do that. Do you have any >> password-related extension? LDAP maybe? >> Looks like you change your password and then some policy determines that >> your account is expired and disables you back. Riccardo Veraldi wrote: > Hi > > I have enabled and installed the following exten

Re: [Mediawiki-l] users password is not persistent

2010-12-30 Thread Platonides
Riccardo Veraldi wrote: > Hello, > i looked into the DB. > > every time I logon as WikiSysop the password si disabled. > I reset the password with changePassword.php an it is changed in the DB > nd I can logon. > > after I login the password is set to nologin > > mysql> select user_password,use

Re: [Mediawiki-l] users password is not persistent

2010-12-29 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
the wiki site is closed on the firewall and used only on local LAN, user logon is given by x509 authentication and I have actually only a WikiSysop password user. the mediawiki version is 1.15.3 I have enabled and installed the following extensions: -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 1815 Dec 6 17:2

Re: [Mediawiki-l] users password is not persistent

2010-12-29 Thread Sulka Haro
The three questions that come to mind are: 1) Which version of MediaWiki are you running? 2) Have you installed any extensions? 3) Is there a chance that someone's modified your copy of MediaWiki? I'd assume a poorly programmed trojan (password stealing utility) might cause the type of symptoms yo

Re: [Mediawiki-l] users password is not persistent

2010-12-29 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
Hello, i looked into the DB. every time I logon as WikiSysop the password si disabled. I reset the password with changePassword.php an it is changed in the DB nd I can logon. after I login the password is set to nologin mysql> select user_password,user_newpassword from user where user_name lik

Re: [Mediawiki-l] users password is not persistent

2010-12-07 Thread Platonides
Riccardo Veraldi wrote: > hello, > when I try to cahnge a user password with changePassword.php > maintenance program, > password is correctly changed and user can logon. > > but if I restart mysql daemon, user cannot logon anymore, because > passsword does not work. > > Looks like password i

[Mediawiki-l] users password is not persistent

2010-12-06 Thread Riccardo Veraldi
hello, when I try to cahnge a user password with changePassword.php maintenance program, password is correctly changed and user can logon. but if I restart mysql daemon, user cannot logon anymore, because passsword does not work. Looks like password is stored only untli mysql is restarted th