From 8bb9d41fd1c1586ff2340d26f533e096083fb47d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brion Vibber <brion@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:28:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove totally false information relating to the ancient
 2002-era install script which routinely ate itself and destroyed data and
 required root shell access and couldn't be reasonably used by any human.

---
 AdminSettings.sample | 22 +++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/AdminSettings.sample b/AdminSettings.sample
index fb6d4597bc..c121fc7bd0 100644
--- a/AdminSettings.sample
+++ b/AdminSettings.sample
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 <?php
 /**
  * This file should be copied to AdminSettings.php, and modified
- * to reflect local settings.  Unlike LocalSettings.php, it is
- * not copied to the installation directory for security reasons;
- * it is used by the install and maintenance scripts only. 
+ * to reflect local settings. It is required for the maintenance
+ * scripts which run on the command line, as an extra security
+ * measure to allow using a separate user account with higher
+ * privileges to do maintenance work.
  *
  * Developers: Do not check AdminSettings.php into CVS!
  *
@@ -12,9 +13,9 @@
 
 /*
  * This data is used by all database maintenance scripts
- * (see directory maintenance/). The SQL user DOES NOT NEED 
- * TO EXIST. It is created by the installation script,
- * which will prompt you for the MySQL root password.
+ * (see directory maintenance/). The SQL user MUST BE
+ * MANUALLY CREATED or set to an existing user with
+ * necessary permissions.
  *
  * This is not to be confused with sysop accounts for the
  * wiki.
@@ -22,13 +23,4 @@
 $wgDBadminuser      = 'wikiadmin';
 $wgDBadminpassword  = 'adminpass';
 
-/**
- * Define these if you want the installed files to be owned
- * by a specific user or group for ease of maintenance.  You
- * must run the install script as root to change owners, or
- * as a member of the group to change groups.
- */
-# $wgInstallOwner = 'apache';
-# $wgInstallGroup = 'apache';
-
 ?>
-- 
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