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duplicate ip/password list! · **Released**: 03-17-2002

and here it is, finally.. perhaps one of the sweetest hacks i've ever installed.. unfortunately i didn't write it, but wired from http://www.xirgo.com (an awesome host, btw) did, and he gave me permission to release it on here.

this is the duplicate ip/password list hack. this basically shows all duplicate accounts on your vb forum sorted by their ip and/or password. this easily allows you to detect who's really who on your forum, and delete/ban accounts that you think are duplicates.

basically it works like this. there are two parts to this list, one part sorted by duplicate ip, the other part sorted by duplicate password. you can definitely tell users have multiple accounts on your forum if you see two (or more) users both with duplicate ip's AND passwords. this list also lists their post counts and their last visit date, so, if you want to just delete one of someone's duplicate accounts, you can choose to do so by either their last visit date (delete/ban the account that hasn't been on the forum longer), or by their number of posts (delete/ban the account that has the less posts).

please note that NOT ALL duplicate pw's are duplicate accounts, obviously. any user can happen to have the same pw as someone else. i wouldn't recommend deleting people with JUST duplicate pw's, nor with JUST duplicate ip's, because of shared accounts on the same connection, etc., but they can definitely be fishy.

to install this hack, simply put the dupeip.php file into your /admin directory of your vb forum. then to access it, go to yoursite.com/forum/admin/dupeip.php, of course.. that's it! no templates to install, no files to modify!

NOTE: the passwords on the list are in their VB encrypted form, but to be safe, only show this list to the other admins of your forum, although by putting it in your /admin folder it will ask for an admin login anyway.

Neo · #2 03-18-2002, 03:10 AM

Funny I have made a hack to stop this from happening all together. What it does it stop people with a Ip that is already registered from registering again... while this hack you have is very nice... this would prove to be more carefree and protective..

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=36049

Scrub · #3 03-18-2002, 03:12 AM

Got to give this a try. Use to have several users who used to have register multipule times to raise their original post count.

Scrub · #4 03-18-2002, 03:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by neo
Funny I have made a hack to stop this from happening all together. What it does it stop people with a Ip that is already registered from registering again... while this hack you have is very nice... this would prove to be more carefree and protective..

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=36049

But what about dynamic IPs? Cause in my area, someone else can get the IP I was using a few months ago..

supreemball · #5 03-18-2002, 03:15 AM

that's a good idea for a hack, but i wouldn't install it myself, neo. some people on my forum, although listed on the duplicate ip list, ARE different people, i know for a fact. so installing that hack would only tick them off, although there are ways of getting around it, of course.

Neo · #6 03-18-2002, 03:41 AM

well I just guess those people would have to live with it... But in my opinion this hack has the same usfulness as mine, but with a few added features... but anyways..nice of you to post it for the rest of us

SaintDog · #7 03-18-2002, 07:25 AM

I had edited a script that was made here about a week ago to do the same thing this hack did, almost, mine did not show duplicate passwords, but it also was not as organized. Instead of showing them grouped together, I had to go down a list of 200+ members to find the duplicate ones to investigate.

Thanks for this hack, another backup should someone be able to get around the hack neo mad

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SaintDog

SaintDog · #8 03-18-2002, 09:26 AM

I became rather board and the white and all was hurting my eyes so I made a few changes to make it look like the control panel (default style), it makes thing a little neater in my opinion.

I am not taking credit for anything other than changing some colors

- I am hoping this is not a problem? The file is the same, just made to look a little better.

Download Below:

Tim Wheatley · #9 03-18-2002, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by neo
Funny I have made a hack to stop this from happening all together. What it does it stop people with a Ip that is already registered from registering again... while this hack you have is very nice... this would prove to be more carefree and protective..

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=36049

Problem with that though is that a lot of (for example) Australian's have the same ISP, with dynamic IP's so you could be banning/stopping lots of innocent users with that...

supreemball · #10 03-18-2002, 11:05 AM

saintdog, thanks for taking the time to do that, although i get a header info error with that file for some reason.. not sure why, but it works like a charm.. i do admit the interface for mine is rather ugly, but it provides more function rather than beauty, and plus i had no intentions of linking the file from admin cp either.

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