This extension is professionally maintained by the WikiTeq team.

WikiTeq provides official support for MediaWiki LTS releases only. It may work with other MediaWiki releases.

Warning: This is a powerful extension and may pose serious risks if misused or misconfigured. Ensure you fully understand its implications before enabling it or granting user access. Users with access to this extension can change another user's email address and password, effectively allowing them to take over that account. They can also disable user accounts indefinitely – a change that cannot be reversed through any extension or special page. Therefore, do not grant a user access to this extension unless you completely trust the user not to misuse it. It is recommended to limit access to users with bureaucrat or higher permission levels.

MediaWiki extensions manual

EditAccount Release status: stableCategory:Stable extensions
Implementation	Special page Category:Special page extensions
Description	Allows editing account details, or disabling an account
Author(s)	Łukasz Garczewski, Jack Phoenix
Maintainer(s)	WikiTeq team
Latest version	1.3.4 (2022-12-13)
Compatibility policy	For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release there is a corresponding branch in the extension.Category:Extensions with long-term support release branches compatibility policy
MediaWiki	1.35-1.39Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Browse repository (Phabricator · GitHub) Gerrit code review Git commit log Download source tarball Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control
Added rights editaccount Category:Extensions which add rights
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Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

The EditAccount extension has two main purposes. One is to change another user's password, real name, or email address. The second is to disable another user's account.

The special page may be limited to a certain user group, such as staff or bureaucrats.

Effects

Installation

• Download and move the extracted EditAccount folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:

  cd extensions/
  git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/EditAccount
  

• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'EditAccount' );
  

• 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

By default, all user groups will only have permission to close their accounts. The user right "editaccount" will have to be set for an existing user group, e.g., "bureaucrat" or for a new user group to allow editing or closing all accounts:

$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['editaccount'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['editaccount']['editaccount'] = true;

Logging

Use of the special pages "CloseAccount" and "EditAccount" is logged at Special:Log/editaccnt. If needed, this log can be set to private.

Example log entries

* 04:41, March 18, 2011 WikiAdmin (Talk | contribs | block) disabled account User:Example user ‎ 
* 02:11, February 17, 2011 StaffMember (Talk | contribs | block) changed password for user User:Jimbo Wales

Related extensions

• DisableAccount - Allows administrators to disable individual accounts.
• UserMerge - Allows merging and deleting user accounts.
• UserManager - Allows to administrate users.

This extension is included in the following wiki farms/hosts and/or packages: Canasta Category:Extensions included in Canasta MyWikisCategory:Extensions included in MyWikis ProWikiCategory:Extensions included in ProWiki semantic::coreCategory:Extensions included in semantic::core This is not an authoritative list. Some wiki farms/hosts and/or packages may contain this extension even if they are not listed here. Always check with your wiki farms/hosts or bundle to confirm.