can't assign bureaucrat role anyhow

[snoer]

since I can't login with the mediaWiki's admin account the only possibility to grant another user bureaucrat rights seems to do so via LocalSettings.php

I removed the Admin user via phpmyadmin from the wiki_users and created the account again after adding the following to my LocalSettings.php.

$wgSMFSpecialGroups = array(
1 => 'bureaucrat'
);

this doesn't seem to have any effect.
I run SMF 2.0.4, MediaWiki 1.21

[emanuele45]

Take in consideration that group changes are not applied "immediately", it should take about half an hour or more to be effective.

That said I haven't yet tested the issue so I can't say if the bureaucrat group has some other trick.

[emanuele45]

As far as I can see after a bit of testing, bureaucrat is a very special group and cannot be assigned lightly, also in MW you must be bureaucrat to assign or remove the bureaucrat role.

I think the behaviour is intended: the bridge assigns roles that can be normally assigned, if you want all your admins to be bureaucrat I think there is something more to change.
If you notice even only to assign the sysop role (that has less power than bureaucrat), the bridge uses a special variable: $wgSMFAdminGroupID.
I think the idea is the same. ;)

[jdarwood007]

This is how MW handles the bureaucrat role. It could possibly change in the newer auth plugins.