Question

Mantis needs the new user to click on a link received in a mail. As per company policy, the sendmail (or any other) application can not be active on server. How do I allow users to register without a valid e-mail?

Is there anyway I can run an update query and change the password directly in the database and hand it over to the user?

Answer 1

1. Create the user normally via http://path/to/mantis/manage_user_create_page.php (using an existing admin account)

2. Open a command prompt and log into MySQL (mysql -u root -p)

3. use bugtracker; (where bugtracker is the name of the mantis bd; default = bugtracker)

4. update mantis_user_table set password=md5('password') where username='username';

The whole cmd exchange looks like this:

C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 4.1\bin>mysql -u root -p
Enter password: *********
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 7 to server version: 4.1.21-community-nt

Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the buffer.

mysql> use bugtracker;
Database changed

mysql> update mantis_user_table set password=md5(‘password’) where username=’username’;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 1 Changed: 1 Warnings: 0