naming the 'unauthenticated' user

Posted At : May 17, 2007 5:31 PM
Related Categories: Web Dev

What are peoples preferences for naming the unauthenticated user account? I have seen it named unknown or everybody or maybe even visitor.

This account is basically the user that is on your site that isn't logged in. The name is important so admins can set the rights for what this person type can do. If the name isn't accurate that may confuse the admin. For support reasons I would like to lock down this user types official name so admins can't rename.

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I would like to suggest Anonymous or Anon - it follows typical IIS Group permissions and tends to mean the exact opposite of admin.

# Posted By Marci Watson | 5/17/07 3:58 PM

I use "guest".

# Posted By Peter Bell | 5/18/07 5:44 PM

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