By Adraeus on

How do you rename anonymous and authentic user roles?

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micha_1977’s picture

micha_1977 commented

u will find

Anonymous user:
"anonymous"
The name used to indicate anonymous users.

and as for the authenticated, i guess you have to change the code or just a new user role which has all the rights you want it to have
maybe combine this with automember module

-micha

Adraeus’s picture

Adraeus commented

I just want to rename the roles so that instead of displaying "authenticated user" what would display is "Member".

Automember is limited to only one type of user, and if it's possible to simply rename the "fixed" roles then automember is useless for my purposes.

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madivad commented

I just went into the database and in the roles section you can rename them. I made administrator just admin and made the anonymous user just anon. I then went and created a post on my board as the anon user and it went thru no probs. It did however recognise the anon name as Anonymous, but that's no probs, now I can have a heap of shorter names along the roles screen.

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madivad commented

and just in case you didn't hear me the first time:

DON'T DO IT!!!!

I did it several hours ago and there is ONE major problem with it. When a new user get's created it can't find the authorised account and hence causes grief for them (and you)

Aand don't ask me why it looks for a name as opposed to a UID, it certainly seems to be a piece of sloppy coding to register by a hard coded role name as opposed to an ID... Or at least have given us the option to say (in the steetings somewhere) Newly created users receive what role as default. But it doesn't.

The only way around this would be to manually authenticate everyone yourself and make sure you assign accordingly.

So, just once more: DON'T DO IT!!!!

karldied’s picture

karldied commented

Thanks for the thread and comments, but is there no easy (or even medium hard) way to do this?

bradlis7’s picture

bradlis7 commented

I don't think it's possible, but I really don't understand why one would need to change it. Only those with user administration privilages can see what the users are called. If you really wanted to change it, you might be able to use javascript to change all occurances of "anonymous user"/"authenticated user" on the page to whatever you need. I'm not real sure how to do that though (I'm not an expert in javascript).
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JohnG-1’s picture

JohnG-1 commented

wouldn't it be nice if all of these 'labels' were themeable functions ... alas we can only dream.

bradlis7’s picture

bradlis7 commented

I wonder if there's any way that the translating ability of drupal could do this... It seems like the theme() function does this (not for sure), but I'm also lost on how to do this.

You could always dig into the code if you know php. Find where it prints out the title of the role, and put one of these:

if($text == "authenticated user") print "member";

and do the same for anonymous users. But good luck with that.

This probably should be an option, but I don't want to complain. They did it for a reason, I'm sure.
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madivad commented

I was going through some old posts and found this thread. Now there is a painless way of doing exactly this!

Visit:
http://drupal.org/project/stringoverrides

You can see a preview of the module in a video at this location:
http://blip.tv/file/545202
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andrewbenkard’s picture

andrewbenkard commented

thank you thank you.

I love this whole Drupal thing.

rajmataj’s picture

rajmataj commented

For Drupal 7, go here: admin/config/people/accounts and you can rename the anonymous role