Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Multiple account login detector (AE Detector)

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Same plug-in found here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=125871

There are no differences as this plug-in works with the 3.5, 3.6 or 3.7 releases of vBulletin.

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.

[orok]

works fine with me at vb 4.0.5 :up:

[egerci]

Hello,
I use this addon for years and it was very helpfull for me to detect multiple account.

As you know there are 2 option to report detection.
New Thread Creation and sent PM

I have added some code to plugin and now it automaticly create/add "user notes" for multiple account.

to do;

Firstly open "AE Detector: Login checker" plugin from pruducts and plugin/plugin management pages under "Multiple Login Detector" section.

And find

$ipaddress = $vbulletin->config['ae_adminip'];

after this line add all of following

//create a new usernote
$usernote_message = $message;
for ($i = 0; $i < (sizeof($Unums)); $i++) {
	if (!empty($Unums[$i]) && is_numeric($Unums[$i])) {
		$checkuser = $vbulletin->db->query_first("SELECT username FROM " . TABLE_PREFIX . "user WHERE userid={$Unums[$i]}");
		$db->query_write("INSERT INTO " . TABLE_PREFIX . "usernote (message, dateline, userid, posterid, title, allowsmilies) VALUES ('" . $db->escape_string($usernote_message) . "', " . TIMENOW . ", ".$Unums[$i].", 1, 'Coklu Uyelik', 1) ");
	}
}

and save..
Next time it detect a multiple login account automaticly creta a user notes about multiple login.

PS. check your "USER NOTES" option for usergroups

[Eric]

As far as vB 4, since this mod is marked as "Re-usable Code", I'll give it a look over and will release it with any improvements I may make to it.

[Boofo]

Actually, it works fine just the way it is.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Actually, it works fine just the way it is.

Indeed, but I do see some things that could be improved

[Boofo]

Originally Posted by SecondV

Indeed, but I do see some things that could be improved

I'd be interested to see what you come up with then.

[Videx]

I like the idea of automatically adding user notes for everyone involved. And maybe some sort of 'test' button (though I can't imagine how to do it). Maybe the posted notice would include an admin link to exclude one or all of the people involved (a fairly tedious process now).

[Boofo]

User Notes would be a waste of a good hack.

[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Actually, it works fine just the way it is.

O.o maybe I should have posted that a while back lol, I know the mods phrase No Soup for You and you and you etc is from the "Soup Nazi" episode of Seinfeld from years ago... no one else ever seems to put two and two together .

Originally Posted by SecondV

Indeed, but I do see some things that could be improved

Well don't keep us waiting too long...

Originally Posted by Boofo

I'd be interested to see what you come up with then.

Same here

[Paul M]

I actually rewrote a lot of this for my forum a while ago, tbh I cant exactly remember what I changed, but I know it works much better for us now.