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.

[scan-pa]

after the upgrade of vB, did you re-install the mod? upload the Product xml file, redo the template edits? Change and fill out the settings in the vB options area?

[Raptor]

Originally Posted by scan-pa

after the upgrade of vB, did you re-install the mod? upload the Product xml file, redo the template edits? Change and fill out the settings in the vB options area?

of course. and there are no template edits for this hack

[ProAzn]

If an admin and/or supermod have an account and then creates another one in a regular/other usergroup does this mod ignore the admin/mods other accounts?

[vitrag24]

when i installed it worked but not working now for many days/weeks.

[Videx]

It may be time for some author interaction. I wonder if we could add some sort of debugging information to try to figure out why it's not working for so many people?

Like I said, it's working fine on one of my 3.7.2 forums, but not on the other. I've been assuming some other mod has been interfering with it.

[vitrag24]

it has detected 2 users today..
working sometimes and sometimes not..

[Paul M]

Just curious here - but how do you know its sometimes not working ?

[Videx]

Thanks for looking at it Paul. I can't answer for vitrag, but the way I test this mod is to unset ignoring any groups or users in options, then log in as admin and log out and log back in as my second 'normal' user.

I just tried it again. On my newer board it trips immediately. On my older board it doesn't. Both cookies are present and are identical (except for the urls).

[bagh1]

Originally Posted by Videx

So have you installed any other mods recently? A lot of us would really like to figure out which one(s) are disabling it.

Sorry for the late response. I haven't installed any other mods after this one. I have filled out all the settings in VB options area.

[mark99]

Originally Posted by Videx

Thanks for looking at it Paul. I can't answer for vitrag, but the way I test this mod is to unset ignoring any groups or users in options, then log in as admin and log out and log back in as my second 'normal' user.

I just tried it again. On my newer board it trips immediately. On my older board it doesn't. Both cookies are present and are identical (except for the urls).

I've had the same problem, it was working fine up until once of the recent post 3.7 patches and now the behaviour seems erratic. Out of interest, did you try the test on several different browsers?