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Bug 37830 - New configuration setting to control whether password confirmation is required for changing an e-mail-address or not
New configuration setting to control whether password confirmation is require...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
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: Low enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2012-06-22 16:13 UTC by [[kgh]]
Modified: 2014-02-26 15:45 UTC (History)
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Description [[kgh]] 2012-06-22 16:13:43 UTC 
Starting with MW 1.19.x possibly MW 1.18.x it is required to confirm the change of an e-mail-address with a password. This is ok since it assumes that a person logged in into an user account knows the password.

Reality has it that heaps of people create an account, put in the wrong e-mail-address (typo, etc.) and forget about their password after logout. Up till now I was able to sudo these people and help them. Now this is not longer possible.

Thus it would be good to have a way to disable this requirement, something like "$wgUserEmailChangeConfirmation" which defaults to "true"
Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2012-06-22 16:30:30 UTC 
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/12604
Comment 2 [[kgh]] 2012-06-22 17:24:46 UTC 
Documented with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRequirePasswordforEmailChange

Thank you once again for making this possible.
Comment 3 MZMcBride 2014-01-23 20:29:39 UTC 
I don't understand this bug. Why is a global configuration needed here?
Comment 4 Andre Klapper 2014-01-24 12:05:48 UTC 
MZMcBride: Why did you reopen this?
Comment 5 Andre Klapper 2014-02-26 15:45:04 UTC 
No answer - Setting back to RESOLVED FIXED because that is the status of this request.
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