Manual:resetUserEmail.php

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.27 Gerrit change 255044

MediaWiki file: resetUserEmail.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.43.0 • 1.42.4 • 1.39.11
Classes:	ResetUserEmail

Details

resetUserEmail.php file is a maintenance script to change the email address of users on the wiki, and mark the email address as confirmed. In addition to that, it will set a random password on that account. This will require the user to reset their password in order to be able to login again.

This can be used to set or change an email address on an account that doesn't have a confirmed email address or the email address is no longer accessible. This can also be used to effectively lock an account by setting the email address to a fake one, since it also resets the password.

Usage

Parameters

Option/Parameter	Description
--no-reset-password	Don't reset the user's password. Defaults to false so that, double negation, the password by default does get reset.
--dbuser	The DB user to use for this script
--dbpass	The password to use for this script
	Username or user ID, if starts with #.
	Email to assign.

Example

To change a user's, e. g. John Doe, email address to "johndoe@example.com" and reset their password:

$ php maintenance/run.php resetUserEmail John_Doe johndoe@example.com

In MediaWiki version 1.39.10 and earlier, you must invoke maintenance scripts using php maintenance/scriptName.php instead of php maintenance/run.php scriptName.

See also

• changePassword.php