Catching the members in the act...
 

I have a hack that monitors the logins for mods and admins and in case of a login failure it sends me an Email notice on the name of the moderator, the password used, the IP address of the person and the time stamp. :D

I posted a thread about it on my board just to get a laugh out of it. The funny thing is that only 2 people on the board tried it and they obviously admitted defeat. :D

http://www.ls1.com/forums/showthread...hreadid=397373

Pretty funny. I have something similar @ my forum, but haven't busted anyone... yet. :D

Is this hack for public use?

LMAO!:p

I tried a few passwords, you might find them funny;)

Satan

well that's a nice method, i also did myself, just i stored the tries in the db and not as mail ;)

but you know, it could be a way for you to gain pw's, too as a little spelling error can show you the pw of your mods....

Any hack that allows you to see a users password shows poor character on the admins part. It's thieft and invasion of privacy. If you put up a sign that said your password is not private and may be collected by the admin of this site I'm sure your site would be dead. Collecting passwords from failed mod/admin login attempts is the same. You do not need the password tried to complete your investigation. In the context that xenon put it - "but you know, it could be a way for you to gain pw's, too as a little spelling error can show you the pw of your mods" - it's purely thieft.

I'm shocked at these actions!

well you're not 100% right here.
If you make it so, that not the admin sees all false attempts, but every mod can see the attempts on THEIR OWN account, it's also no problem to show the pw.

It can be useful for investigation if you see someone tries a PW you use on another site. In that way you know the other site's admin is a problem...

You always have to look at both sides of a medall, not just one :)

Now that idea seems fair. I'm paranoid about spying I guess. The read PM's hack or idea of it never really sat well with me either.

if this is for public use i would like to know the location of this hack because it could come in handy

:)
i know what you mean, as i'm paranoid, too ;)

it always depends on the admin.
The PM read hack could be a useful thing, if you have to check a special users because you got complaints about him.
But of course you can also use it to read private discussions at all.
Admins can be good, but can also be bad, you have to know how far you can trust one...

As said i don't like them either, but i also know about the usefullness of these things, too...

@blakkboy: nope, hasn't been released AFAIK