Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Multiple Account Registration Prevention

*Note* This requires the Multiple Account Login Detector (AE Detector) in order to function. Big thanks to MPDev for the AE Detector hack, I have used/modified his code for use in parts of this mod (with permission).

*Note 2* My forum's servers are driving me nuts right now, big load times, etc and I'm about to cut myself from waiting for a page to load - so I haven't thoroughly tested all the new goodies I've added. If you find that something doesn't work please let me know.

Description
When an user registers, this plugin checks for the cookie that the AE Detector sets, if it exists, then this plugin will move the user to a specified usergroup (default is to the (COPPA) Users Awaiting Moderation usergroup). This will now check the user's IP address upon registration, and if it matches any others, it will place them in the Multiple Account (MA) usergroup . Also you have the option to ban the new account if the old account was banned.

You can turn the new features on/off accordingly in the settings area.


Install / Upgrade
Download the attached XML file, and import it at
Admin Control Panel > Plugins & Products > Manage Products > Add/Import Product

Remember to "Allow Overwrite" if you are upgrading.

Mod Info
1 - Query
3 - Phrases
2 - Plugins
0 - Template
0 - Template Edits


v1.0.2

• Fixed some major bugs that made the last release basically useless.

v1.0.1

• There is now an option prevent account registrations based on IP addresses.
• If a banned user attempts to create a new account, the new account will automatically be banned.
• Multiple account registrations will now send a PM or make a thread

v1.0.0

• Initial beta release

Please click "Install" if you have installed this mod! Thanks!

[FleaBag]

Nice hack! A lot of my users are logging in from college/work, using shared computers. Would be bad for me but I can see the benefit!

[randominity]

Keep in mind this doesn't affect the login process, just the registration. And I guess it doesn't really "prevent" registration, just sends it to a different registration process.

[MPDev]

Nice add-on! What a great idea.

[randominity]

Originally I had it set to "Moderate New Users" for vB, and I would have AE Detector make new threads in a forum for Multiple Accounts it found, but it got tedious having to look for 'em all.

So I finally got fed up and made this ^^

If anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears... one thing I've noticed that would be helpful is to do the AE Detection process at the same hook as this plugin. For example, since I have AE Detector make a new thread; if a user tries to register, make a new thread saying "userx has tried to register account: usery" or something.

[DementedMindz]

randominity great addon just a quick question say I move them to banned usergroup, will it only move the name just registering or both names that match?

[Peter_Rosado]

I guess this doesn't work in 3.5.5 right?

[randominity]

Originally Posted by DementedMindz

randominity great addon just a quick question say I move them to banned usergroup, will it only move the name just registering or both names that match?

just the name registering.

and I will post a 3.5.x version of the script in a little bit.

[Snake]

Excellent! I thank you for making this.

[Nathan2006]

Im going to try this

Thank you randominity

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