• Registered: 2011-12-28
  • Posts: 1

Topic: Unable to fetch guest information expose table structure.

hi all

I understand the important of having anonymous user as guest in the table 'punbb_users' but can you agreed when there is no 'guest' as user, the error message reveal table structure that essential prompt 'advanced technical giku' or 'hackers' to further exploit the weakness of the forum?

"Unable to fetch guest information. The table 'punbb_users' must contain an entry with id = 1 that represents anonymous users."

Is there a way to reduce this risk?

2 Reply by Grez

  • Grez
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  • From: Czech Republic
  • Registered: 2008-12-03
  • Posts: 248

Re: Unable to fetch guest information expose table structure.

Hi,

What reason do you have for deleting Anonymous user? If you want to hide forum for unregistered users you can do that in Administration > Start > Forums > (Edit forum), where you can disable Guest's rights for reading wink

And being worried about this error message, that it compromises security, when you speak about open source big_smile That's kinda non sense, don't you think? smile

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