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Can Anonymous Coward Be Renamed?

posted by Krow on 04:04 AM December 3rd, 2002      

Is there a way to rename the nickname Anonymous Coward? If a site wants to encourage anonymous submissions for some reason, calling them cowards is a bit insulting. I called up user 1 and changed the Realname field, but that didn't work. Template 101 edit_comments seems to use user.nickname, but I can't find a place to change that outside of SQL. Would something break if I did change it in SQL?

• AC is an existing user (Score:1)

  by Yorrike (4270)

  What you need to do as far as I can tell, is rather than changing user #1's settings, set up a new user and set the anonymous_coward_uid variable to that new user's uid. Make sure this new user has seclev of 0

  The only problem I can see for changing the username in MySQL is that archived shtml pages would still display the Anonymous Coward username after the change. Don't take my word for it though, there maybe internal things that rely on user #1's settings. I'd personally go for a new anon user account.
• How to do that from mysql (Score:2)

  by alessio (25)

  update users set nickname = 'Anon.' where nickname = 'Anonymous Coward';
  update stories set writestatus = 'dirty';
  update discussions set flags = 'dirty';
  
  stop and restart slashd and Apache.
  

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  • Re:How to do that from mysql (Score:2)

    by Krow (986)

    update users SET nickname = 'Anon', matchname='anon' WHERE nickname = 'Anonymous Coward';
    
    

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