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.

[PSimmo]

I have tried disabling the hooks but still cant get to the control panel

[Coldhands]

First off... Awesome mod.

My question: I created a new moderator account to post these reports in an AE Forum. For some reason, the user's post count is 0 and the posts are not searchable. The forum that these posts are in is marked as searchable / indexed. Any ideas on how to fix this. I'd like to be able to search user names in my AE forum.

Secondly, Is there a way to combine threads started by the same user? I have a few people that have created multiple accounts, and each time they log into a new one, it creates a new thread, as oppose to updating the existing one. The report post feature does this, and I'm wondering how easy it would be to implement into this add on.

[jagtpf]

Installed on 4.2.3 C1 - Watching to see what happens.

[jagtpf]

Sadly its not working.
I created two dummy accounts on same PC/email address and there was no report issued, and followed the instructions in #128


One thing - in the plugin - to which account is the 'create new thread' set? Is it the triggering account? (just wondered.....)

[blind-eddie]

Originally Posted by jagtpf

Sadly its not working.
I created two dummy accounts on same PC/email address and there was no report issued, and followed the instructions in #128


One thing - in the plugin - to which account is the 'create new thread' set? Is it the triggering account? (just wondered.....)

If you set admins to allow more then one account then that is why your ip does not trigger it.

[jagtpf]

Originally Posted by blind-eddie

If you set admins to allow more then one account then that is why your ip does not trigger it.

I'll have another, closer, read of that guide and make another attempt...

[jagtpf]

ps Admins - why am I seeing your debug info !

[jagtpf]

flummoxed; logging off from the Forum clears cookies "it says" - but not the cookie the product is looking for.

I'll have to dig deeper into some of our settings - multi-use of email address is not allowed - but following that guide I'm setting it up to trigger ..

:chinscratch:

[squidsk]

You need to manually remove cookies. Logging off only removes the cookies vbulletin itself adds not ones used by any products you have installed.

[jagtpf]

Originally Posted by squidsk

You need to manually remove cookies. Logging off only removes the cookies vbulletin itself adds not ones used by any products you have installed.

Yes, as the guide says, there's a tool in Firefox which I cleared of the 3 cookies. ....