Manual:changePassword.php
MediaWiki version: | ≥ 1.6 |
MediaWiki file: changePassword.php | |
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Location: | maintenance/ |
Source code: | master • 1.42.3 • 1.41.4 • 1.39.10 |
Classes: | ChangePassword |
Details
changePassword.php file is a maintenance script to change the password of a user on your wiki. Note that passwords must have at least 10 characters.
Options/Arguments
Option | Description | Required? |
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--user | The username to operate on | Optional |
--userid | The user id to operate on | Optional |
--password | The password to use | Required |
Usage
php maintenance/changePassword.php [--user| --userid| --password ]
Terminal
$ php maintenance/changePassword.php --user Foo --password IamPassword Password set for Foo
Usernames and passwords can have spaces, which will need to be protected from your shell (be it bash or cmd.exe
; see Troubleshooting, below):
Terminal
$ php maintenance/changePassword.php --user "Foo Bar" --password "fierce sea ceasefire" Password set for Foo Bar
Troubleshooting
- If your MediaWiki installation uses a memory cache, such as APC, memcached or Redis, then the user object is cached. Thus after making SQL changes you must flush the cache before a user can log in with the new password.
- Windows has special challenges with parsing double-quoted strings, as when a username or password contains spaces in the second example above.
- Occasionally triple (
"""quoted string"""
) and quadruple sets of double quotes will solve your problems with Windows' command shell,cmd.exe
. You may be happier, though, to try Cygwin and follow the Unix conventions for quoting strings, which require fewer quotation marks.
- Occasionally triple (