2006-09-11

On my personal bliki, obliged to revert some pages following some EveMoreau?’s edits ? I try to do my best following Eve’s instructions to describe it !

1. while searching for WikiNode in the searchbox, Eve has seen two searchboxes appearing…
2. In the right search box, she entered “NearMap”
3. After she went on the NearMap page, edited the page, and went back without saving
4. odd → a lot of pages were altered with this message appearing in the summary-box :

 WikiNode -> NearMap 

Any idea ?

– ChristopheDucamp

Looks like she was able to trigger search & replace somehow. Ordinarily, this operation is reserved to administrators. It seems extraordinary that she managed to guess the administrator password. What does Xtof:try?action=password say? Is she an ordinary user or an administrator?

If I try it, it says “Your password does not match any of the administrator or editor passwords.”

If she is an ordinary user but can recreate the problem (I cannot!) then please let me know. Looks like an interesting bug… :)

– AlexSchroeder

Thanks Alex. You’re right, Eve did use my PC logged as administrator without any IdentityTheft? because she was logged with her RealName? ;-) Xtof:try?action=password told with her real name

  Vous êtes actuellement administrateur de ce site.

Don’t panic, she’s not a witch and cannot currently guess the password. So, I’ll look later HowTo :

• log out as I leave this machine ?
• play with this interesting and cool feature “search and replace” :-) ?

Thanks for all Alex.– ChristopheDucamp

Hehe. I’m glad you didn’t unveil a serious bug in Oddmuse! :) To log out, use the password action without a password.

– Alex