You're welcome. I wonder how APCOND_ISIP and APCOND_IPINRANGE were expected to work, and if we should deprecate/remove them.
On 28 February 2015 at 23:17, John Horne <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2015-02-28 at 03:27 +0000, Alex Monk wrote: > > (CCing wikitech-l) > > On 28 February 2015 at 01:04, John Horne <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > $wgAutopromote['sysop'] = array(APCOND_ISIP, '141.163.4.11'); > > > > > Wait, what? MediaWiki supports that?! You should not do that. > > > Yes, MW allowed me to do this, but reading your reply I can see why it > is not something we want to do. It also explains why the 'user list' > page seemed to allocate everyone to the administrators group. > > We have now changed things a bit in that the 'editor' permissions have > been pushed into the 'user' group (most were there anyway). > > We also removed any other 'autopromote' settings. By logging in using > the default login mechanism, and with the initially created account, I > could then set my own account to be administrator and bureaucrat. After > that everything looked fine. > > However, we are intending to use the Shibboleth extension (as forked on > github) as the main login mechanism. When we reapplied this, my groups > were gone again! It seems the extension has a bug in that it removes a > users groups, but never adds them back again. I have corrected this, and > submitted a patch upstream. > > So now we are happy. We have Shibboleth login working fine, and the > users groups are as they should be and remain so upon login/logout. We > are now not using autopromote at all. > > > > Many thanks for your reply, > > John. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------- > John Horne Tel: +44 (0)1752 587287 > Plymouth University, UK > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
