Reset your MediaWiki Sysop Password
When you’re stuck without sysop access to MediaWiki because you cannot remember the sysop details then there’s a handy maintenance script that’s available (if you’ve used the package manager) to reset the sysop username and password. On Ubuntu server you can run the following command: php /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance/changePassword.php –user=sysop –password=password The script will immediately reset your [...]
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