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.

[NeitherSparky]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I used a slightly different solution to this when I first noticed this (long time ago) - I added a line to the thread creation code to set the ip address to '0.0.0.0'

That's brilliant, Paul! Never would have thought of that...I have a "secretarial" account I use for mods like this one, but originally I was using my admin account and was also surprised to see that I shared IPs with ban-dodgers...I even posted about it on vbulletin.com but had to retract it when I figured out I had not, in fact, been hacked.

[attroll]

Thanks MrEye for your post after reading your post I went back an verified and found my problem. It is now working again.

Thank you

[Videx]

Originally Posted by attroll

Thanks MrEye for your post after reading your post I went back an verified and found my problem. It is now working again.

Thank you

Please don't keep it a secret. Why wasn't yours working and what did you do to fix it?

Since MrEyes' was actually working, I'm curious why his problem helped you solve yours.

[attroll]

I went into my Admincp and where it says:
"Userid of who PM sender / Alert poster
Typically your admin account userid"

I made sure that the user id was an admin

I also verified the spelling of this one (but don't think this one mattered):
"Users who recieve the PM upon multiple login detection
List of usernames who will recieve the pm report upon multiple login detection seperated by ;"

My problem was that I had downgraded the admin that was listed and he was not and admin anymore.

[Videx]

Oh. No, I just tried both of those. User ID of PM sender is 1 (myself). I deleted all the others out of the receivers box so it's just me. Still nothing.

[attroll]

Originally Posted by Videx

Oh. No, I just tried both of those. User ID of PM sender is 1 (myself). I deleted all the others out of the receivers box so it's just me. Still nothing.

Sorry. I don't know what to tell you. All I know is that it works for me now. It was not working before and I uninstalled it and reinstalled it a few times and just gave up until I read MrEye post. Then I tried what he said and it worked. The funny thing about it is that I had those all set right that way when it was not working about a month ago. I don't know why all of a sudden it is working again. I am just glad it is for now.

[Videx]

Guess what I just got? A PM from the AE Detector!

However, logging out and logging in as another user - the test I've always used - still does not send me a PM.

Something very odd going on here.

[southbendforum]

installed. Should solve a very recent problem with banned user.

[ldma]

I'm running 3.7.0...

PMs work, but thread posting doesn't. Anyone got any idea how to fix this?

[jambo_1969]

I've installed this, but having severe issues trying to get it to work...

I did however note upon checking with my test accounts, that until I set the ID for Alert poster to a useable admin id - I got a message upoin login "Invalid Username set for post" (or similar)..

Once I'd changed the login to a relevant id - it's still not working however....