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[elektrastudio Friend elektrastudioJoin date: April 2010Posts: 61Downloads:0Uploads:19 Thanks: 18 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#154582

Hello.

I would like to know why there are two hidden users in the templates I downloaded?
The users doesn’t show in the user list, but they are in the database.
And after answering this question, I would like to know how can I create a hidden user.

Thank you.

Jonathan Roza

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#356556

Hello elektrastudio!

That’s a issue from database sample of the quickstart package, please let know which template are you using ?

[elektrastudio Friend elektrastudioJoin date: April 2010Posts: 61Downloads:0Uploads:19 Thanks: 18 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#356726

Hi Tienhc,

I found this already in several templates. The one I can remember now is JA Droid.
I will look into the quickstart databases and tell you the templates that have those users.
Also, I found the same users under the k2_users table, and those are also hidden in admin view.

Thank you.

Jonathan.

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#356742

I will inform this issue for developers fixing them. thanks a lot

[Janice W Davis Friend Janice W DavisJoin date: September 2014Posts: 105Downloads:0Uploads:16 Thanks: 14 Thanked: 2 times in 1 posts]

#369879

I have found this as well with the sulfur template. Their are 12 users don’t show up in the user manager – but they show up in other extensions eg SOBI2 and when viewing the database user table from phpMyAdmin.

You never mentioned how to get rid of them. Is it safe to delete them from the jos_user with phpMyAdmin?

Thanks
Janice

[elektrastudio Friend elektrastudioJoin date: April 2010Posts: 61Downloads:0Uploads:19 Thanks: 18 Thanked: 5 times in 1 posts]

#369886

Hi Janice.

I have deleted those users in PhpMyAdmin without any problem.
In fact, after this incident, The first thing I check after install from a quickstart (either from Joomlart and from other template vendors) is for hidden users, which I delete promptly.
You might want to check also the K2 users table, as those hidden users are replicated there too.
keep in mind that if you do any SQL import as part of a template or big extension install, you might find that too.

Best regards.

Jonathan.

2 users say Thank You to elektrastudio for this useful post

1. Janice W Davis
2. Subliminal8

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#370082

Can you please list the steps you took to remove these hidden users?

Thank you for pointing this out!!

[aman204 Friend aman204Join date: January 2010Posts: 1945Downloads:0Uploads:43 Thanks: 11 Thanked: 418 times in 356 posts]

#370226

<em>@Subliminal8 212757 wrote:</em><blockquote>Can you please list the steps you took to remove these hidden users?

Thank you for pointing this out!!</blockquote>

For k2 users checkup, You can go to::

phpmyadmin >> jos_k2_users and click on browse. Delete the users there accordingly 🙂

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