duplicate ip/password list!

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.

[SaintDog]

Seems to be working fine for me, at least since I have been using it. I will see if I left out or deleted anything from the script that may be causing the header error. If I can find the reason I will re-upload it.

SaintDog

[Zedd]

Hi, hack sounds great. I downloaded the file and installe dit, but when I run it I get a blank white screen. Was I suppose to modify the file in anyway to get it to work on my server?

[SaintDog]

Nope, just upload to your /admin folder and open your browser and goto the location of the file

SaintDog

[Zedd]

ok I did that and it did not work, so here is a question.

I have the php3 version, so all of my php files end in php3

So what is the difference between the two versions VB offers and which one are the hacks written for

[SaintDog]

The hack was written for the PHP versions I am pretty sure, although there should not be too much of a difference I would not think, but I do not know everything about php so I could be wrong.

SaintDog

[nafae]

Saintdog/supreemball: In addition to your pretty color change, I added an admin nav option to the admin's index.php page, and that is when I notice the "not outputing header" error. Here is what I put for the nav link:

PHP Code:

//the normal part of the navigation
makenavoption("Build Mailing List","email.php?action=genlist","<br>");
//this is the part I added:
makenavoption("View Duplicate IP Addresses","dupeip.php/"); 


I added the slash at the end of dupeip.php because vbulletin was adding things to the url that your script didn't like, so I was getting "page not found" errors. What can I do to add a link on the admin page and get it to integrate as normal? Any ideas?

Great hack btw,

[Axel Foley]

Saintdog: your version produces a warning if you call the script directly, but if you integrate it in the CP it works fine.

Nafae: you can do it this way (this is an extract of my index.php, the Hacks sections) look at the dupeip line.

PHP Code:

// *************************************************
makenavoption("Login Information","loginlog.php?action=modify","<br>");
makenavoption("PM Stats","pmstats.php?action=","<br>");
makenavoption("Moderator Logs","modlog.php?showLimit=25","<br>");
makenavoption("Mass PM","masspm.php?action=","<br>");
makenavoption("Duplicate IPs&PW","dupeip.php?action=","<br>");
makenavoption("Template Backup System","tbs.php?action=modify");
makenavselect("Hacks","<hr>");
makenavoption("Browse Attach.","browseatt.php?action=intro","<br>");
makenavoption("Delete Attach.","rematt.php?action=intro","<br>");
makenavoption("Convert Date/Time","convert.php?action=intro","<br>");
makenavoption("Encrypt String","convert.php?action=intro","<br>");
makenavselect("Hack Admin Func.","<hr>");
// ************************************************* 


Supreemball: thanks a lot for this one. I'll integrate it with the extended version of the loginlog hack (originally by PPN) that I made to look at dupes also for login IPs...

[Jawelin]

Originally posted by SaintDog
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.
[...]

Nice restyle... Just, shouldn't have been a little cleaner to use
cpheader() and cpfooter() functions as in each AdminCP page, instead of replicating such a html code inside the php script ?

:laugh: Thanks

[chris frolic]

Awesome hack. Love it .

[LaNder]

i integrated it in the CP but it still shows the errors:

Warning: Cannot add header information - headers already sent by (output started at /.../admin/dupeip.php:5) in /.../admin/global.php on line 118

... line 119
... line 120
... line 121

how can i fix it?


LaNder