[Slashcode-general] new user registration problem

[Erena L. <ela...@he...>]

Dear All,

New users have not been able to register on the slash site i installed.
The do not recieve their passwords via email and get an error message
saying whatever their username is, and not found.

I am using slash 1. While I know that it says this is not supported,
I would like to fix this problem before upgrading.

I have looked at the user table in mysql and it has this for users:

mysql> select * from users;
+------------+------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+----------+----------+------+--------+-----------------+

| uid        | nickname         | realemail                   |
fakeemail | homepage | passwd   | sig  | seclev | matchname       |
+------------+------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+----------+----------+------+--------+-----------------+

|          1 | author1          | author1@zamboni             |
NULL      | NULL     | change   | NULL |      0 | author1         |
|         -1 | Anonymous Coward |
|           |          | change   |      |      0 | anonymouscoward |
|          2 | user1            | user1@zamboni               |
NULL      | NULL     | change   | NULL |      0 | user1           |
|          3 | user2            | user2@zamboni               |
NULL      | NULL     | change   | NULL |      0 | user2           |
|          4 | user3            | user3@zamboni               |
NULL      | NULL     | change   | NULL |      0 | user3           |
|          5 | user4            | user4@zamboni               |
NULL      | NULL     | change   | NULL |      0 | user4           |
|          6 | author2          | author2@zamboni             |
NULL      | NULL     | change   | NULL |      0 | author2         |
| 2147483647 | erena            | er...@he...
|           |          | xKHunobD | NULL |      0 | erena           |
+------------+------------------+-----------------------------+-----------+----------+----------+------+--------+-----------------+

This is what I get regarding msyql version:

mysqladmin  Ver 8.18 Distrib 3.23.36, for sun-solaris2.7 on sparc
Copyright (C) 2000 MySQL AB & MySQL Finland AB & TCX DataKonsult AB
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL license

Server version          3.23.36
Protocol version        10
Connection              Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket             /tmp/mysql.sock
Uptime:                 28 days 1 hour 37 min 56 sec

Is this an incompatible mysql for slash 1.0?  I will upgrade to 2.0
soon, but I would like to solve this problem since I don't know if it
will go away with the slash update, and feel I should figure this
problem out before complicating things.

I have seen some remarks on the list about the  Anonymous Coward user
and if this isn't set up, new users accounts can't be created. Does
annonymous coward appear to be set up properly?  (sorry if I seem rather
clueless, I'm sort of overwhelmed)

Any and all feed back appreciated.

Erena