New to Jira, why is anonymous in my instance?

[Athas Mark]

Who is this anonymous and how do I prevent this?  my jira-software-users group is empty (we use a controlled group) and I do not have an anonymous-users group?

[Jack Brickey]

I believe that is simply the system action as a result of an associated previous user action.

[Mark Athas]

Thanks.   I thought that, but was not sure.  You'd think it would say, "Jira System" or something like that...

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

You'll find Jira uses "anonymous" to tell you "this person is not logged in, so I don't know who they are", as well as recording "anonymous" for some system actions, as Jack said.