Multiple account login detector (AE Detector)

If you are like me and migrated from .threads, a common modification was an "AE detector", a simple mod that saved a cookie of a history of ids logged into on your site. If someone logged into more than one account, you got a PM letting you know that your site was being accessed from multiple accounts.

Over the years this was very helpful in identifying users who were posting under multiple accounts (alter-egos!) and users who would return after being banned.

You might be wondering why I don't use the vbcookie call - well, thats because on logout all vB cookies are cleared, so we need to store a cookie that is not effected by the login/logout process.

New Installation
1. Add New Product with attached XML
2. Go to vBulletin Options -> AE Multiple Login Detection Settings and set your specific settings.

Time to install: Easy - 2 minutes.

Upgrade
If you installed this as a Plug-in manually, you can delete that plugin and install this Product, just make sure to go into the Options and set them accordingly.

I hope you find this useful and will click INSTALL if you use it; should it prove useful to enough people I can look at making this installation more automated without the need for edits and an Admin Options page.

To upgrade you will want to reimport this XML file and edit your options accordingly.

1.0.3
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. Added a check to ensure that users weren't deleted when reporting violations
. added htmlspecialchars_uni call to username

Note: I am unable to get the call to construct_phrase with $vbphrase['multiplelogin_alert'] to work reliably, as such the $message variable is still set manually inside the plug-in and not via the phrase. If anyone has an idea of why this might not always work, I'm all ears.

1.0.2
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. Updated to include exclusion groups, users
. Changed so PM is sent by ae sender id

1.0.1
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. Released as a Product (thank you PHPGeek2k3 for your help)
. Added option to post to a forum versus send a PM (or both)
. All settings moved into Admin Option

1.0.0
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Initial release.

[PHPGeek2k3]

Originally Posted by markblair

I'm not even sure what you mean. All I did was install the mod as it was downloaded. I made no changes outside of removing the option that says to not have this report specific userid's (i.e. the admin account). My main username is the Administrator account. I also have a second username for testing purposes. When logging in with both, I did not get a PM sent to me. When I changed it to create a new thread in a specific forum, that worked.

I'm going to try this later tonight but what are all the differences that everyone wants? What was in the original that this update now includes? Thanks!

i was trying to ask if you had the it configured as the user to send that sends the alert / posts the thread in admin forum as the user that is not getting the PM. As vBulletin will not send a PM to itself.

The differences are ability to ignore userid's & groupid's, post to a thread, added config options in admincp, ability to either send PM / Post thread as triggered user or as a set user ("Configured in AdminCP Options") and there might be a few others that i cant think of off the top of my head right now.

Thanks
- James

[bada_bing]

Clicked install and testing

[pantec]

I am using this and it works great!

One thing I would like to know...

Can you add a piece of code to actually delete the user(s) from the VB/DB when AED runs?

I have a very strict site and I would like to add this to the code.

They can always register again... maybe a bit wiser.

[VBUsers]

im not recieving my PMs , is there a reason why?

[MPDev]

Shouldn't be if you have all your items configured properly in the Admin Options...

I don't plan an autod-delete, I think that would be too dangerous to implement and possibly prone to mistakes (like when two people actually share a computer to access the same site as often happens).

[VBUsers]

Originally Posted by MPDev

Shouldn't be if you have all your items configured properly in the Admin Options...

I don't plan an autod-delete, I think that would be too dangerous to implement and possibly prone to mistakes (like when two people actually share a computer to access the same site as often happens).

yea cause my issue is i dont get the PMs and neither does my staff that i have added by name

and

i keep getting threads in my staff section by the people that have 2 usernames but that we have allowed for theyre reasoning. what do i do. i dont want to keep making threads over and over. i would rather have 1 thread made and thats it or 1 pm. what am i doing wrong?

[thc34]

thank you

[luroca]

This is one of the more useful hacks I have instaled.

Thanks very much.

[punch]

I installed it, we'll see how it works out.

[Ghanem]

God bless you