I have a user with no name...

Client Joined: Jul 18, 2003 Posts: 977

help? How did this happen?

Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 9:50 am

No real name? No nickname? Recent or old ID? What does your nuke_user table say about it?

registered · Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 9:54 am

Could you be talking about that god account, I have partial god account as user #1 but its not a real member, no real details in there, My real god account shows as #2, but it shows as 200 members overall, but it shows 199 members in the forum.

I was going to delete it, but not 100% sure if I should.

Hangin' Around Joined: Feb 24, 2004 Posts: 31

calma, it's the guest account, someone correct me if i am wrong Smile

nota: as i cant work out how to post on your site as a guest I cant cant leave an example to explain better Smile

Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 7:58 am

the person is signed in with no name. How do I search in the users table for a man with no name?

Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 9:36 am

Hold ALT and press 0160 on the numberpad (must be on the numberpad), you get an invisable char. It looks like just a space you would get by hitting space bar, but its not. Maybe he used this, but not sure if nuke allows them in usernames or not. You could search your member list for that invisable char though, just an idea.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Often times this is a result of a user who has a cookie on their local machine but no active user record in the database. Possibly a deleted user?

Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 11:09 am

Ahh yes... I remember banning an IP and deleting a user before the upgrade.. I do not believe it has been rebanned... so what does he see when he comes back? Is it as if he never was banned?

Posted: Mon May 03, 2004 11:18 am

His IP has probably changed so it's the fact that his cookie has an id that doesn't match anything. So, he sees what a visitor would see.