Toavoidtheinaccurateestimationoftheactiveuser'snumberandthecorrespondingperformancedegradation,anovelPOR-basedUserIdentificationDetector(UID)isproposedfortheCodepisionMultipleAccess(CDMA)systems.ThenewdetectoradoptsthePowerofR(POR)techniqueandtheMultipleSignalClassification(MUSIC)method,whichdoesnotrequiretheestimationofactiveusers'number,andobtainslowerfalsealarmprobabilitythanthesubspace-basedUIDinthemultipathchannels.However,fromouranalysis,increasingtheordermdoesnotimprovetheperformance.Therefore,whenmisone,theperformanceofthenewdetectorismaximal.