See the addition to bug #4239, made at 12:26 on 20th September: "------- Additional Comments From 09/20/99 12:26 -------" This happened because I wasn't logged in when I made the submission (which in itself appears to have been a glitch in Bugzilla's cookie handling, although it now appears to recognise me). After I hit the 'Commit' button, I was prompted for my email address and password, but my email address didn't actually make it to the submission.
This is a problem with the way bugzilla does anonymous browsing. If it cannot find a cookie from the users browser it assumes that person has never been there before an goes into anonymous mode. This means if someone makes a comment it doesnt know who made it and should have the name Anonymous show up instead of nothing at all. This is a problem that should be fixed soon. Until then if you see that you are doing a query as an Anonymous user (should say at top) click the login link and then make your changes. ------- Additional Comments From 09/23/99 11:41 ------- .
I have verified this to be a problem. I will look into fixing this int the near future. Thanks for pointing it out. What should happen is that it should not ask for a login name and password and add the comment but have Anonymous as the user name at the least. ------- Additional Comments From 10/30/99 14:20 ------- Both bugzilla #5859 and #6542 appear to be duplicates of this item.
This is now fixed in the latest Bugzilla version we are currently using. To add a comment a person must be a member of the bugzilla system. Although they can still browse bug reports without being a member. If this still seems broken please reopen this report.