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7 Authentication / Authorization

 15.06.2007
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7.1   Block anonymous Users
7.2   includes/AuthPlugin.php
7.3   Authorization
7.3.1   Restrict Access

Important  

Notes on Authorization and Authentication

The superuser of MediaWiki is WikiSysop. A user belongs to one ore more groups.
MediaWiki always converts the first character of the user name to upper case.
There are three groups defined by default:

  • bot
    A registered bot account. Edits by an account with this set will not appear by default in Recentchanges; this is intended for mass imports of data without flooding human edits from view. (Add &hidebots=0 to list changes) Like this
  • sysop
    Protected pages: Only users with 'sysop' privileges can edit it.
  • Bureaucrat
    Can grant 'sysop' status to a user.

See also Authorization how you could remove specific functions from users.

Important   WikiSysop is member of 'sysop' and 'Bureaucrat' by default.
A new user is not a member of any group after creation.

List all users in SQL
mysql> select user_id,user_name,user_touched,user_email_authenticated,user_email_token_expires from sunri_user where user_name='Retox';
+---------+-----------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+
| user_id | user_name | user_touched   | user_email_authenticated | user_email_token_expires |
+---------+-----------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+
|       4 | Retox     | 20051116101941 | NULL                     | 20051123101936           |
+---------+-----------+----------------+--------------------------+--------------------------+

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