diff --git a/mozilla/webtools/despot/config.pl.dist b/mozilla/webtools/despot/config.pl.dist
index 942d1953986..c06717be106 100644
--- a/mozilla/webtools/despot/config.pl.dist
+++ b/mozilla/webtools/despot/config.pl.dist
@@ -15,6 +15,5 @@ $::db_name = 'mozusers';				# database name
 $::db_user = 'despot';					# database username
 $::db_pass = '';					# database password
 
-$::anonymous_sysuser = 'nobody';			# the system user the "anonymous" account will use for pserver
-
 1;
+
diff --git a/mozilla/webtools/despot/syncit.pl b/mozilla/webtools/despot/syncit.pl
index 8e254e89316..aec956cee12 100755
--- a/mozilla/webtools/despot/syncit.pl
+++ b/mozilla/webtools/despot/syncit.pl
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ use DBI;
 use lib qw(.);
 require 'utils.pl';
 
-use vars qw( $db_host $db_name $db_user $db_pass $anonymous_sysuser );
+use vars qw( $db_host $db_name $db_user $db_pass );
 do "config.pl" || die "Couldn't load config file";
 my $dsn = "DBI:mysql:host=$db_host;database=$db_name";
 $::db = DBI->connect($dsn, $db_user, $db_pass)
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ while (@reprow = $repquery->fetchrow_array()) {
     
     print PASSWD "# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!  You must instead go to https://despot.mozilla.org/, and\n";
     print PASSWD "# tweak things from there.\n";
-    print PASSWD "anonymous::${anonymous_sysuser}\n";
     
     while (@row = $query->fetchrow_array()) {
         ($email,$password,$group,$neednew,$disabled) = @row;