# Logged-out readers see a sign-in notice instead of the file

**What you are seeing**

Logged-out readers see a sign-in notice instead of the file.

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## Why it happens

For an anonymous reader the app tries the public raw fetch and nothing else. Deliberately, so a stranger is never ambushed with an OAuth window. The notice intentionally does not name the repository.

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## What to do

This only affects private repositories. If the content must be visible to logged-out readers, it has to live in a public repository.

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## Settings involved

| **Setting**                     | **Where**             | **What it does**                                                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ------------------------------- | --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Unlicensed and anonymous access | Not user-configurable | Granted on the MACRO module only, for both 'unlicensed' and 'anonymous'. So a reader outside the licence, or logged out entirely, still sees public file content in the degraded read-only branch. But gets no "Github" byli |
| Byline visibility conditions    | Not user-configurable | The byline requires the reader to be logged in with VIEW permission, and then one of: the space-level alwaysOn flag, an existing git content property, or the macro key present in the page's Capable content indexing macro |

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## Related

[Disconnect button does nothingEvery Disconnect control just shows a message telling you where to go.](https://help.gocapable.com/git/disconnect-button-does-nothing.html)

[GitHub asks me to authorise again every single time, even though I already connectedThe authorisation step hard-codes a consent prompt, and most paths in the app request a fr](https://help.gocapable.com/git/github-asks-me-to-authorise-again-every-single-time-even-though-i-already-connected.html)

[Everything elseThe rest of this family.](https://help.gocapable.com/git/everything-else.html)

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