Does your account have the sysop group in Special:UserRights? There's also an admin, or administrator group.
On Mon, 7 Dec 2015, 05:39 Toshi Esumi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Recently my wiki site got attacked by somebody using API and thousands > of pages and users were created. So I had to re-image the VM (ubunto > 14.04) and installed 1.26.0 and manually re-created the wiki from > scratch Then encountered some difficulty setting up proper user group > privileges to protect the site from vandalism. > > First, I disabled ('false') 'createpage' for all user groups '*' like > below in LocalSettings.php. But it looked like disabled administrator > creating pages. So I added another line with 'sysop' to allow it. But it > still doesn't allow. I created a new user group and allowed > "createpage", and this works. So I'm wondering why an administrator > can't create a page. > > $wgGroupPermissions['*']['createpage'] = false; > $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['createpage'] = true; > > Does anyone know why this doesn't work? > > Toshi > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- Love and waffles, PJosepherum _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
