Extension:Sudo
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 Release status: unmaintained |
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| Implementation | User identity |
| Description | Gives the ability for Sudoers on the wiki to login to other users' accounts. |
| Author(s) | Daniel Friesen (Dantmantalk) |
| Latest version | 0.6.0 (2018-06-29) |
| MediaWiki | 1.29+ |
| Database changes | No |
| License | GNU General Public License 2.0 or later |
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| Quarterly downloads | 7 (Ranked 129th) |
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| Issues | Open tasks · Report a bug |
The Sudo extension the ability for Sudoers on the wiki to login to other users' accounts, using "Special:Sudo". This may be used for helping users set their own preferences, testing to see if something in the UI is affected by their login, or changing things under their name.
Sudo does log use of sudo to transfer to another user's accounts; however, beyond that there is no tracking of what the sudoed user does. Be careful who you give sudo to as it can be abused in the worst of ways. It is not longer possible to change the email address of an account without knowing the password with the help of this extension.
Installation
- Download and move the extracted
Sudofolder to yourextensions/directory.
Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/Sudo - Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:
wfLoadExtension( 'Sudo' );
- Configure user group and user right at your convenience.
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
Configuration
The user right "sudo" will have to be set for an existing user group, e.g. "bureaucrat" or preferably for a new user group:
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['sudo'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sudo']['sudo'] = true;
Known issues
See phab:maniphest/query/Uaw4sPCoSHql/#R.
 | This extension was migrated from Daniel Friesen's Wiki-Tools.com and checked into Wikimedia's software repository. |