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.

[teedizz]

Something is wierd here. It works for some & not for others ( like myself ). What is a key code in the plug-in that may be preventing it from working on my site? I do have other hacks installed but nothing major, why do you think its not working for some MPDEV? Can you shoot out some suggestions?

[teedizz]

Originally Posted by MPDev

If you have the module installed that doesn't allow for URLs to be posted by users with XX posts, then that would prevent a post from being added to your AE forum if the user logging in has less than the number of allows posts required to post URLs.

I dont have that mod installed so that would count that out as a possible problem.

[MPDev]

Try this.

1) Clear your sitewide cookies (IDstack being the key one to delete).
2) Login as User #1. Logout.
3) Login as User #2.

Do you get any error messages?

4) Logout.
5) Login as Admin and check for new PM or post in forum depending on your settings.

I have mine setup to not send a PM, but to post in a forum.

[osmanungur]

thnx installed

[cjwinternet]

Installed thanks. Where can I edit the 'soup' comment?

[voteforbird]

Is it possible this system has a bug that erroneously reports multiple logins? Today we had an automated report for two members who have been around for ages. One with 3500 posts and another with 7500. We're supposed to believe they used the same computer?

[ConqSoft]

Maybe they visited each other? Logging on from the same computer isn't always a bad thing... Just something to keep an eye on for problem users.

[teedizz]

Originally Posted by MPDev

Try this.

1) Clear your sitewide cookies (IDstack being the key one to delete).

How do i do that bro?

[MPDev]

What browser do you use? It's in the cookie settings area with whichever one you use.

Is it possible this system has a bug that erroneously reports multiple logins? Today we had an automated report for two members who have been around for ages. One with 3500 posts and another with 7500. We're supposed to believe they used the same computer?

Since the mod uses a cookie that can only be stored on a single computer; one would assume that had to cross-login for some reason.

[CoreIssue]

It worked for one, but I just caught a banned user sneaking back on. Didn't report them.

Same IP but different name.

Only thing I changed was IE 6 to 7.