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.

[toutatis]

hey guys. how can I do this :

AE Detector must insert thread with another user id .

normally AE Detector insert thread with Admin User.

How can I do this ? Which part of codes in XML file must be change ?

[TigerWare]

Originally Posted by toutatis

hey guys. how can I do this :

AE Detector must insert thread with another user id .

normally AE Detector insert thread with Admin User.

How can I do this ? Which part of codes in XML file must be change ?

AdminCP->vBulletin Options->AE Multiple Login Detector Settings->Userid of who PM sender / Alert poster

Change this to the ID of the user you want.

[towermatt]

So basically this thing will wait until the do it and then send a PM or does it have a cron that goes back for anytime someone has posted using an alternate?

Great mod, I can really use this on my site.

[toutatis]

Originally Posted by TigerWare

AdminCP->vBulletin Options->AE Multiple Login Detector Settings->Userid of who PM sender / Alert poster

Change this to the ID of the user you want.

Thank you. how I couldnt see . Thanks for your information.

[ETDC]

I've had a notification PM from a member who I didn't nominate in the Control Panel.

I put in my Usergroup ID (6) and I get the notification from some random member.

What's causing this and how do I fix?

[towermatt]

I am not sure this is working, I have it all installed (very easy) with the settings under the options set up but it is not reporting anything.

I have it set to not exclude anyone and I know my wife logs on with the same computer I do under a different member name. Shouldn't it be catching this? That was going to be my test for it.

[Fungsten]

Originally Posted by towermatt

I am not sure this is working, I have it all installed (very easy) with the settings under the options set up but it is not reporting anything.

I have it set to not exclude anyone and I know my wife logs on with the same computer I do under a different member name. Shouldn't it be catching this? That was going to be my test for it.

Check the settings for the "Usergroup" also. Just a thought.

[towermatt]

Thanks man--I have the two "ignore" fields blank. Because I want it to do everyone for now.

Told it I wanted it to send PM's

Have my UserID in the field under that

and my user name in the next one. I am assuming that means it will be from me to me which is what I am looking for to test it.

Really appreciate the help though

[TigerWare]

Just a thought, specifically for towermatt

If 2 people share the same computer but login to that computer using a different profile the cookie detection will not catch it. This is correct becuase the cookie will be stored in different internet caches.

If 2 people share the same machine login (or there isn't a login at all) then both users must be using the same physical browser for cookie detection to work.

If both people use the same login and the same browser, are the cookies set to be cleared between sessions. If so, the cookie for the detector will not exist and therefore will not catch it.

Hopefully I have all that correct. To test this addon you need to make sure that cookie itself is active in the browser when you login using different id's. That's the way I tested it, and it works perfectly.

HTH

:up:

[towermatt]

I'm going to have to look into how to make those cookies active.

Thanks for the help Tiger