It won't report the same people over and over again unless they are somehow resetting their cookies themselves (like using logout and "clear all cookies" option); for which there is nothing you can do without adding database tracking to the code.

Right, this does not deal with the "sharing" of accounts; for that you would probably want to use IP tracking over a specific period of time. I have a paysite and it tracks user logins per day per IP and trigger a warning if used more than X times over that 24 hour period. (This is not a vBulletin thing, its a browser password thing).

For that you would need an to track all IPs used to login with timestamps and a checker.

Does this add on work well with PHP5.2?

I'm not aware that the version of PHP has any bearing on the plug-in itself.

Just one suggestion: how about including the IP address of the machine in the warning message? I added the code $ip= IPADDRESS; up near where it's checking the cookie, then changed the message so it says something like ... sharing the same computer at IP $ip.

Problem the search function is having problem after installing this hack and even after uninstalling...

Please help

I wonder why would you want that? If the pc is on dial up, AOL or another proxy, then many IP's will be used. If not the IP does not add anything. Or does it?

This doesn't touch anything to do with "search"; not sure what you are referring to as a "problem" as that's pretty vague.

I really like this mod but lemmie try it out first.

I'm completely new to vb so please take it easy on me.
Does this mean list the user i'd I dont want it to be posted to, because in this field it shows 1, and my user id is 1 because I am the admin, should I remove this 1 or leave it?

Hm,

i'm using this hack reporting to a forum through a special account, which isnt used at all.

But now i noticed that this account has multiple ip-adresses.

Can it be, that the IPs of the users, which are reported as using a multiaccount, are logged for that account by creating the reportthreads?

I've installed this (smooth BTW) and everything works fine but it will not create a thread.

It will show it in the latest posts but there is no thread and when I click on the link it says I do not have permission and the thread points to the public forum even though I've set it up in my MOD section.
The PM sending works great!! Just not the thread.
Any ideas on this?



EDIT: Never mind I was putting in the display order # instead of the forum id.:confused:


*INSTALLS*

Trying to uninstall since userid and usergroup exceptions are not working and I have several members who cannot login but when I uninstall via manage products I get the following error. Please help.

Thanks for the MOD. This was a problem for me in the past.

ST

You didnt post the error.

Hi,

Will it start detecting multiple users after they sign in with both accounts?

I'm not sure I follow you - if they sign in two two accounts, it reports; it wont report again until someone uses a third account on that computer.

Thanks you've answered my question.

Installed. I hope it works, we've had a few problems with people with aliases ont he site... very annoying.

I think you will love how it work's. I caught someone that was banned 3 years ago on my forum. He also got a hold of someone elses password and logged in on her account as well.

For us it's been a wonderful thing to catch people who were banned who join again or simply trouble makers who like to use alter egos to stir up trouble.

I am running 1.03 on my 3.6.4 it stop working when i went from 3.6.1 to 3.6.4
any recomendations?

Im getting people I know well logging in, & it shows them sharing same pc. I know for a fact they have know clue who each other is. Is anyone else having this problem?

bump.....................

Have you tried to uninstall and re-install?

Also check all input fields for proper settings.

*INSTALLED*

....and working perfectly. I have it set to send a PM rather than post a thread in a specific forum. I installed it just 2 days ago and have already caught 10 people using multiple accounts. Thank you very much for this extremely useful hack. I'm also using the multiple account registration prevention hack too, which works very nicely in combination with this hack.

Feature Request:

Now I'm no coder, but I was wondering something. Let's say someone has already registered multiple accounts *before* I installed this hack. What I would like to see as an added feature, would be a way to automatically place the multiple account into a "banned" usergroup.

Let's pretend that a few users already have multiple accounts...say user x with userid 100 has already registered accounts as user y and user z, with userid's of 200 and 300 respectively. Would it be possible to add a feature whereby the higher userid can be placed in a usergroup of your own choosing, say a "banned" usergroup when the AE detector is tripped? Most multiple accounts would have the higher userid than the user's original and primary account. So working on the difference in userid, the feature would automatically ban the higher userid and leave the lower one alone. It's not too hard right now for me to just manually ban the multiple account with the higher userid, but a feature to automatically do that would be nice.

The only other feature I can think of that I would like to see, would be a "strikes" system, whereby any user caught logging into multiple accounts more than X number of times would have the option of also being put into a "banned" usergroup.

I've got one person on my boards who must have at least 15 different personalaties and does things like make a post under one account, then he switches accounts, goes back to the post and compliments "himself" on the wisdom of the post.

Just a suggestion...this hack works wonderfully the way it is now, these are just "bonus" features that I'm suggesting here. Like I said, I'm no coder so I have no idea how difficult/impossible something like these suggestions might be.

Thanks for listening and for a great hack.

Corporal Clegg

as soone as he logout of one name an into another the hack will alert ya then you warn him and if he continues ban his ip or there is a hack that dont let you log out somewhere make a special user group and put him in there.
hope this helps a bit.

thanks.

great hack...

System went crazy, installed it propely on a fully functional board and it's triggering everytime with PMs and Threads saying X and Y are the same person.
Previously, before i've reinstalled my boards it worked without any problem, but now it's triggering all the time, and it's definitevely not working because it's happening all the time and saying that users 500miles away are the same person...

I get simular results, I just delete those & move on to next one.

Yea, I could do it, but that's not how this system is supposed to work.
When I had my forums on 3.6.0 that used this same system worked perfectly, 100% of all reported logins were true, not like what's going on lately: messed results...

How can i edit the "no soup for you" phrase. It is saying it has been edited and saved in phrases but will not show in the posts. Can it be 'forced' to save.

leftie, after you click on Mark Installed ;), check the plug-in itself; I had troubles with the phrases at one point and had to go back to using text in the plug-in.

Nothing has changed in the code to make it function differently between versions, so I can't explain why it would behave differently.

leftie -- by "will not show in the posts", are you talking about posts that it makes after you edited the phrase, or posts that were already made before you edited the phrase?

Oops sorry MPDev *installed*.

GeekDrew,, I am talking about posts that have been made after the phrase edit.
Could i edit the xml file itself (two references to no soup for you) and reinstall.

MPDev, I have a feature request, which would be very handy IMHO:

If one of the reported accounts was banned, then display the reason for this ban in the Multiple Login Detection reports.

What do you think of this?

i just dont know why this doesnt work for me. It use to work perfectly on 3.5.4 but now that im on 3.6.4 it dont work

ive tried on all versions, 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, and 3.6.4 and it never worked...damn, i need this dang hack too

Very nice but... Why aren't there any phrases? Everything is INSIDE the plugin.

Works nice on 3.6.4 though.

hey is it possible to exclude someone from tripping the detector?

cos i have about 5 or 6 families who come to my forum
the adults like to discuss
the kids usually play games in the arcade

and everyday i have about 8 or 9 pms telling me the AED was tripped by these users
so any resolve for this please?

Yes, you can add their userid's to admincp -> vbulletin options -> AE detector -> ignore users (or simular)

First off I love this hack and it works awesome for my community. All of the moderators love it.

While investigating a user just now I noticed that all Flagged users share user "admin" IP in common. Every time it trips and posts a new thread in my "incident log" forum it is user admin that posts, and admin posts from the same IP as the offender rather then my server IP. First I was alert and concerned but eventually figured out what was happening. No complaints on this, just an observation I thought was worth sharing.