Forums / Install & configuration / Difference between guest user and anonymous user
Brijesh Tekrawala
Tuesday 12 October 2010 5:07:31 am
Hi ,
Can someone let me know the diffreence between guest user group and anonymous user group ?
Thanks in advance.
Brijesh
Ivo Lukac
Tuesday 12 October 2010 5:45:12 am
Anonymous basically contains only anonymous user. This uses is special one, used for all anonymous access
Guest group stores registered users. They can have different policies then anonymous and that is why they are separated from anonymous.
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André R.
Tuesday 12 October 2010 5:48:14 am
This varies from the package you install, in ezwebin / ezflow the distinction is that anonymous (non logged in user) can only read standard content, while member (aka logged in guest account) can post forum posts / topics, comment and rate articles.
If you want to allow these things for anonymous user as well you would preferably need to setup captcha protection as well.
Edit: And as Ivo mentions, anonymous user is shared user for all non logged in users.
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