Maniphest T197026

Bureaucrats are "officially" able to grant&revoke user and autoconfirmed on checkuserwiki and some other wikis
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	Urbanecm
	Jun 12 2018, 6:57 PM

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Hello,

I've realized that IS.php says CUs are able to grant&revoke user and autoconfirmed. Each of this group is "granted" (better, evaluated) automatically by MW and nobody can do anything with this. I think those directives should be removed as dummy ones.

Best,
Martin

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	Some wikis bureacurats are able to grant non-grantable groups	operations/mediawiki-config	master	+6 -6

Customize query in gerrit

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The same applies for ombudsmanwiki.

And for stewardwiki.

Change 440002 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; owner: Urbanecm):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Some wikis bureacurats are able to grant non-grantable groups

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/440002

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Urbanecm renamed this task from d6aaaaaaaa to Bureaucrats are "officially" able to grant&revoke user and autoconfirmed on checkuserwiki and some other wikis.Jul 2 2018, 12:19 PM

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Urbanecm moved this task from To deploy to To deploy - scheduled for SWAT on the User-Urbanecm board.Jul 2 2018, 8:21 PM

Hello,

this will be deployed tomorrow (July 03) between 13:00 and 14:00 UTC.

Best,
Martin

Change 440002 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Some wikis bureacurats are able to grant non-grantable groups

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/440002

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2018-07-03T14:05:01Z] <zfilipin@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: SWAT: [[gerrit:440002|Some wikis bureacurats are able to grant non-grantable groups (T197026)]] (duration: 00m 51s)

Deployed.

Urbanecm moved this task from To deploy - scheduled for SWAT to To deploy on the User-Urbanecm board.Sep 14 2019, 3:23 PM

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	Jun 12 2018, 7:26 PM

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