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Sudo Release status: unmaintainedCategory:Unmaintained extensions
Implementation	User identity Category:User identity extensions
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+Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Browse repository (GitHub) Gerrit code review Git commit log Download source tarball Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control
Added rights sudo
Hooks used SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal Category:SkinTemplateNavigation::Universal extensions UserLogoutComplete Category:UserLogoutComplete extensions
Quarterly downloads	6 (Ranked 108th)
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Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

The Sudo extension grants 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 Sudo 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/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.