That's enough of the Web Site Configuration menu for now. Don't worry; we will come back to it over the next few chapters. Your next task is to close your browser.
Now open a new browser window, and navigate to your site's homepage (http://localhost/nuke/ ). You will notice that you are still logged in as the administrator—you can see the Administration block in the left-hand side column.
You may find this rather strange—you didn't enter a username or a password or go through the admin.php page, so how did it know? The answer is a cookie. PHP-Nuke issues cookies to visitors, which contain a number of user preferences, including their login details. This means that when the visitor returns to the site they are identified, and dealt with accordingly. This explains why you are logged back in as an administrator without having taken any action.
An annoying side-effect is that if you wanted to view the site as a visitor and administrator at the same time, you would have to log...