Unknown Authenticated Users in Awstats
In the Cpanel >> Awstats, you may notice that besides you, Awstats sometimes shows some unknown authenticated users.
Do not worry though, because the web server also records failed attempts by people who tried to access the restricted directories using brute force method.
But It may be a problem when there are unknown users who have tried accessing many times. In this case, you may block the person’s Ip address to prevent him/her from making any attempts at all.
Here is a discussion on this topic at Digitalpoint: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=95149
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May 30, 2007 @ 2:46 pm
[…] Authenticated users: This records all users who have access to the restricted folders. However, the server also record unsuccessful attempts by visitors who tried to access these folders. This is actually discussed in another post if you start to notice some strange names appearing. […]