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=107566

There are no differences as this plug-in works with both 3.5 and 3.6 versions 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.

[blazingpc]

I've installed this (smooth BTW) and everything works fine but it will not create a thread.

It will show it in the latest posts but there is no thread and when I click on the link it says I do not have permission and the thread points to the public forum even though I've set it up in my MOD section.
The PM sending works great!! Just not the thread.
Any ideas on this?



EDIT: Never mind I was putting in the display order # instead of the forum id.


*INSTALLS*

[gonecountry]

Trying to uninstall since userid and usergroup exceptions are not working and I have several members who cannot login but when I uninstall via manage products I get the following error. Please help.

[stwilson]

Thanks for the MOD. This was a problem for me in the past.

ST

[MPDev]

Originally Posted by gonecountry

Trying to uninstall since userid and usergroup exceptions are not working and I have several members who cannot login but when I uninstall via manage products I get the following error. Please help.

You didnt post the error.

[Kadi]

Hi,

Will it start detecting multiple users after they sign in with both accounts?

[MPDev]

I'm not sure I follow you - if they sign in two two accounts, it reports; it wont report again until someone uses a third account on that computer.

[Kadi]

Thanks you've answered my question.

[Fr4gZ]

Installed. I hope it works, we've had a few problems with people with aliases ont he site... very annoying.

[SpanishHarlem]

Originally Posted by Fr4gZ

Installed. I hope it works, we've had a few problems with people with aliases ont he site... very annoying.

I think you will love how it work's. I caught someone that was banned 3 years ago on my forum. He also got a hold of someone elses password and logged in on her account as well.

[MPDev]

For us it's been a wonderful thing to catch people who were banned who join again or simply trouble makers who like to use alter egos to stir up trouble.