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Hi Dirk and team.

I built a new website using GL1.4.0.

I created the first user and I noticed that another user "Anonymous" was also created, shown on GUS's New Users list.

Clicking Admins Only -> Users, it doesn't show any users as Anonymous.

I tried creating Anonymous and the system says that Anonymous is already used. Yet, I cannot delete this user.

I sense something not right... All the other sites that I have created have never had this problem.

I thought I read a discussion on this issue before but the search didn't bring out the article.

Any comments?

Hmm, so you've been a Geeklog user for several years but you never noticed the Anonymous user in the database? Or wondered why the default Admin account has uid = 2 ?

The Anonymous user is Geeklog's "collective" account for all non-logged in users. It's hidden from most places, simply because it's not a real user.

In other words: This account is normal and in fact necessary.

bye, Dirk

Now that you mention Admin being No 2, that makes sense.

Edited 1 hour later...


I was wrong. Anonymous wasn't listed on Who's Online. It was listed on the "New Users" list. Which rightly should be the case, since I set up GUS together with all of GL1.4.0.

Sorry that I raise a non issue. Learnt something new today. Thanks Dirk.