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.

[EdQ]

Originally Posted by Megareus Rex

A small problem. The hack doesn't generate a new thread in my specified forum when the etector is tripped. All permissions for the thread poster and forum are set so new threads can be created.

Any idea what could be wrong?

Same issue

[Snifter]

Hey guys. One of my admins installed this hack and now when we try to access any forum page we get this message:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /includes/sessions.php on line 271

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/dteatro/thefriendsociety.com/forum/includes/init.php
Line: 27

Any idea how I can fix this/uninstall it? I'm not too concerned with keeping the hack, whatever help is easiest.

[Gunshot]

have ya tried deactivating this in the plugin manager?

[Snifter]

Plugin manager?

Excuse my ignorance, it wasn't my idea to install the hack.

Edit: I see the problem now. The version of vbulletin I was using doesn't have a plugin manager. He tried to install the hack on a version 3.0.1 vbulletin. How am I going to fix this?

I'm not sure how he installed it. I think maybe in the "Import Language XML File" menu, but only because it's the only place I can think of where you can upload xml files.

Edit: ok fixed it by clicking on "This will take the latest settings from ./install/vbulletin-settings.xml" in the tools.php menu

Sorry for bothering you people with such an idiotic problem.

[South Fork]

This hack is great. Very enlightening, now knowing who's who with my troublemakers and their 2nd accounts.

Thanks very much for offering this up.

[Gbml2u]

thanks you

[EdQ]

Still can't figure out why it won't post in a forum

[sandalwood]

wtf, this is one of the first mods i installed on my forum, and it DOES NOT WORK. i did all the config settings correct and its set to notify me and the excluded groups aren't the problem ..

weird! this should have been one of the ones that actually worked!

[Tacama]

Simply fantastic... I found a troll trying to register up to 4 times today thanks to this hack... Two thumbs up.

[speedracer68]

Help!!! I'm dead and cant' get into my admincp. Shortlly after I installed this on 3.5.4 today I have been unable to log into my admincp

Here are the errors I get

Warning: split() [function.split]: match failed in /includes/functions_login.php(168) : eval()'d code on line 4

Warning: split() [function.split]: match failed in /includes/functions_login.php(168) : eval()'d code on line 5

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /includes/functions_login.php(168) : eval()'d code on line 6

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/virtual/site5/fst/var/www/html/forum/includes/class_core.php:2984) in /includes/functions_login.php(168) : eval()'d code on line 18

Unable to add cookies, header already sent.
File: /home/virtual/site5/fst/var/www/html/forum/includes/class_core.php
Line: 2984