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.

[samiro]

what about vb4 ?

[Videx]

Originally Posted by samiro

what about vb4 ?

See? Until this mod is moved to the vb4 forum, we're going to get plastered with these questions.

Yes, it works fine in vb4.

[pablete]

Originally Posted by Videx

Yes, it works fine in vb4.

Yes, it works in vb4. Installed! i used it on 3.8.4 before. It's a great mod!

[mavigul]

thanks

[Gamelobby]

This looks great, but i have a question about the settings..?

Ignore UserGroup IDs
List of usergroups that to not repot multiple logins sepertated by ","'s

It's the last option in the settings, & i can't figure out what it says or what it does.


Thanks

[Videx]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

This looks great, but i have a question about the settings..?

It's the last option in the settings, & i can't figure out what it says or what it does.


Thanks

It's an exclusion list. Presumably you may want to exclude the Admins, and maybe the moderators, since all of you will have at least two logins anyway (a second normal login is always necessary for troubleshooting). I've got "5,6,7" in mine.

[Gamelobby]

Ahh, i get it.

Thanks

[cvn]

It does not work with my board (vb 4.0.2 PL1). No PM nor new topic to a specified forum.
I tried to reinstall by both the methods: with and without uninstalling first.

Edit: oh, no! I'm sorry. It works.

[coffee]

Amazing!

it works Works on my vBulletin 4.0.2 PL1 installation

[Pvtiste]

Hi there,

Thanks for this mod and sharing
When I tried to register again I don't receive any notifications