Multiple account login detector (AE Detector)

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.

[almukmin]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

i would like to see some kind of way to prevent users from making another username if it picks up the cookie... this way you dont get a reminder cause they cant make another username..

O yea you can do that, all you do is lock the cookie, go to the Settings in the ACP and set the url for the cookie in the Cookies settings to .yoururl.com

That works for me, people can't even log out, lol.

[EdQ]

I am getting really tired of all the PM's. Can anyone help me to get them posting in a forum??

[speedracer68]

Originally Posted by EdQ

I am getting really tired of all the PM's. Can anyone help me to get them posting in a forum??

Look in your Vbulletin Options. Look for AE Multiple Login Detection Settings.

Set this question to no (Send PM On Multiple Login Detection?)

Set this to yes (Enable New Thread Creation on Multiple Login Detection?)

Set this to a hidden forum ID (ForumID For AE Multiple Login Detection reports)

I set mine to post in a hidden moderator forum.

Hope that helps.

[EdQ]

Originally Posted by speedracer68

Look in your Vbulletin Options. Look for AE Multiple Login Detection Settings.

Set this question to no (Send PM On Multiple Login Detection?)

Set this to yes (Enable New Thread Creation on Multiple Login Detection?)

Set this to a hidden forum ID (ForumID For AE Multiple Login Detection reports)

I set mine to post in a hidden moderator forum.

Hope that helps.

Ahh, the only thing I didn't do was turn of PM Notifications. I'll try that. Thanks!

[ROTPAR]

Originally Posted by Bernd

Could this hack be used to detect account sharing?

That?s a great idea and would be a great feature. Would be cool to see if some members have access to a hidden or password protected forum, if they share the account with other members.

[Jayphen]

Originally Posted by speedracer68

Look in your Vbulletin Options. Look for AE Multiple Login Detection Settings.

Set this question to no (Send PM On Multiple Login Detection?)

Set this to yes (Enable New Thread Creation on Multiple Login Detection?)

Set this to a hidden forum ID (ForumID For AE Multiple Login Detection reports)

I set mine to post in a hidden moderator forum.

Hope that helps.

Hmm, that doesn't work for me

[EdQ]

Originally Posted by speedracer68

Look in your Vbulletin Options. Look for AE Multiple Login Detection Settings.

Set this question to no (Send PM On Multiple Login Detection?)

Set this to yes (Enable New Thread Creation on Multiple Login Detection?)

Set this to a hidden forum ID (ForumID For AE Multiple Login Detection reports)

I set mine to post in a hidden moderator forum.

Hope that helps.

I don't think its working. I usually get at least one per day. :dunno:

[Eagle Creek]

Great hack!

But before I install I have 2 questions:

Who is the person that will be showed as sender of the PM?
Can there be more recipients?

[Nick0r]

Also having problems, the hack won't seem to post in a private (admin only) forum.

[EdQ]

Those changes didn't help. Did a reinstall also.