Mailing List Archive: Reset user's skin preferences

Hi,

I have a user account whose browser comes up blank after they changed
their skin to Nostalgia. I've noticed that there's a Reset preferences
button in the Special:Preferences page(which they can not see), however,
I can not capture the command it's issuing. Do you know what it is? Or
how to reset their skin?

I'm using MediaWiki 1.3.3 on Linux.

Thanks,

Chuck

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On Oct 15, 2004, at 6:40 AM, Chuck Bishop wrote:
> I have a user account whose browser comes up blank after they changed
> their skin to Nostalgia. I've noticed that there's a Reset preferences
> button in the Special:Preferences page(which they can not see),
> however,
> I can not capture the command it's issuing. Do you know what it is?
> Or
> how to reset their skin?

The reset button is a standard HTML form button which resets the form
controls to the state they originally had when the page was loaded. It
doesn't act on the server at all.

I don't know why the screen would come up blank, but you can manually
edit the user_options field in the database, or simply clear it to the
defaults.

To clear:
UPDATE user SET user_options='' WHERE user_name='User Name' LIMIT 1;

> I'm using MediaWiki 1.3.3 on Linux.

Please upgrade to 1.3.6 immediately; there are potentially serious
security vulnerabilities in earlier versions.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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