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.

[VBUsers]

Originally Posted by PHPGeek2k3

As of this attached file this is now a setting to have either the triggered user post the thread or the what is configured under AE Sender configuration option.



The attached file should fix the multiplelogin_alert being the content of the new thread alert.

As i have not be able to test as i dont have a board install that is active to be able to test this out

SO BE FORWARNED I HAVE NOT TESTED THIS.

The phrase is under global phrases for those who want to customize it.

Thanks
- James

has any one tested this product?

[bashy]

Well i have it installed....waiting for a multiple login now...i have tried to kick it off but it wont lol

[bashy]

I have just tripped it and this is all it said
Doogle tripped AE detector

I know for a fact that i have about 7 other accounts pmsl
Pleasde can we have this back to how it was when you 1st created it

[RaidenDAWG2]

Originally Posted by lowandloudinc

has any one tested this product?

Seems to work as designed thus far...granted, I kicked it off myself so take that with a grain of salt

Kudos to whoever worked on this. Nice work.

-RD

[markblair]

I was able to get it to post in an admin forum with the alert but sending a PM to the admin (me) isn't working. I have my main admin account and a test account that I logged in with.

[PHPGeek2k3]

Originally Posted by markblair

I was able to get it to post in an admin forum with the alert but sending a PM to the admin (me) isn't working. I have my main admin account and a test account that I logged in with.

Do you possibly have it setup for the AE Sender setup as the user you want the PM Sent to. As it will not send a PM to itself.

I can make this an option to have it setup where it will either send the PM as triggered user or specified user in settings like i do with the threads.

NOTE to MPDev:

Sorry if you feel if i hi-jacked your thread / mod. If you would like me to continue to send you updates and have you update the thread with them as i have before the last update i posted lemme know and i will do so.

Thanks
- James

[PHPGeek2k3]

For those of you who would like the original method / hack

i have converted everything back to the way they were. Re-Created the template. and have kept alot of the settings. i just commented out the code that i pretty much added in to support the new features.

still has the settings for the main system and everything else.

Thanks
- james

ATTACHMENT REMOVED UPON REQUEST

[markblair]

Originally Posted by PHPGeek2k3

Do you possibly have it setup for the AE Sender setup as the user you want the PM Sent to. As it will not send a PM to itself.

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.

Originally Posted by PHPGeek2k3

For those of you who would like the original method / hack

i have converted everything back to the way they were. Re-Created the template. and have kept alot of the settings. i just commented out the code that i pretty much added in to support the new features.

still has the settings for the main system and everything else.

Thanks
- james

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!

[Zelda-King]

Originally Posted by PHPGeek2k3

Do you possibly have it setup for the AE Sender setup as the user you want the PM Sent to. As it will not send a PM to itself.

That's probably what happened to me. I'd forgotten that little detail.

[bashy]

Working as it should be now 100%
thanks boss