The Anonymous Publishing PET module is part of the Anonymous Publishing project.
It lets authenticated users publish content that appear to be published by Anonymous (i.e. they need to be authenticated and logged in to publish, but the content they tag as anonymous will never be publicly associated with their user name or other identity).
To access the Anonymous Publishing PET administration form, you need to be granted the right to administer anonymous publishing.
After installing and activating the module navigate to:
.There are three tabs:
Under this tab, you check the content types where you want authenticated users to be able to publish as the anonymous user role. You may also enable this featire for comments.
The option “Allow authenticated users to publish as Anonymous” must also be checked to have this feature available on the site.
This panels lists the real user names and subject lines of content that is published as anonymous. It allows the administrator to identify authenticated users that abuse the ability to post as anonymous.
The rentention period of the user names listed here is controlled by the settings under the privacy tab.
While no email address or real user names are made available to outsiders, the email address and real user name associated with content is by default retained indefinitely, and can be extracted from the database. If your site is used to publish sensitive material, you may want to limit the period the record these records are retained.
For a very sensitive site, you may want to set this to “Delete ASAP”, but you may also opt to retain for a limited time (from an hour up to 1 month) to give you some time to spot users abusing the privilege to publish as the anonymous user. The purging is done by cron, so you need to run cron at least as often as half the maximum period set to be sure identifiers are purged within the time limit.
The button “Purge now” bypasses cron and purges the identifiers instantly.