Manual:invalidateUserSessions.php

MediaWiki file: invalidateUserSessions.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.42.3 • 1.41.4 • 1.39.10
Classes:	InvalidateUserSesssions

Details

invalidateUserSessions.php maintenance script invalidates the sessions of certain users on the wiki. After the session is invalidated, the users will be logged out from the browser/app.

If you want to invalidate all sessions, use $wgAuthenticationTokenVersion instead.

Options

Option		Required	Default value
--user	A username	Optional
--file	File with one username per line	Optional

Although both options are optional, either --user or --file is required to run the script.

Usage

php maintenance/invalidateUserSessions.php [ --user | --file ]

Invalidating session for user Jay

Terminal

$ php maintenance/invalidateUserSessions.php --user "Jay"

Invalidated sessions for user Jay

Tip 1: Spaces inside a username must be replaced with underscores ( _ ) or use double quotation like "Foo Bar"

Invalidating list of users' session

userlist.txt

Foo
Bar
Jay
Aman
Kamal Kumar
FlyingWings123
LogicFreek
AK Saini
AyraIn326
MileFireFee

Terminal

$ php maintenance/invalidateUserSessions.php --file userlist.txt
Invalidated sessions for user Foo
Invalidated sessions for user Bar
Invalidated sessions for user Jay
Invalidated sessions for user Aman
Invalidated sessions for Kamal Kumar
Could not find user FlyingWings123, tried to invalidate anyway
Invalidated sessions for user LogicFreek
Could not find user AK Saini, tried to invalidate anyway
Invalidated sessions for user AyraIn326
Invalidated sessions for user MileFireFee

Common errors

Cannot use both --user and --file

This error occurs when you try to use both options at once. You always have to use either --user or --file.

Could not open $filename

This error occurs when the file does not exist or the user running the script does not have permission to read the file.

If the file does exist, check the file permissions. If you are root user, then you can run script with sudo.