Well, just as the old addage goes, necessity IS the mother of invention. Hopefully this is not re-inventing a wheel that already exists in the ThreadsDev repertoire, but here it is. As a result of some pretty malicious activity on our site I put these little tweaks together to keep a better eye on folks. You may find some of it useful.
Mod Name / Version - Additional Security Stuff 1.0
Description - This collection of modifications allows you to monitor potentially undesirable clientele by revealing IP info to the admins and moderators.
Yes, that is really good. I think all these extra security mods should be included in the main distribution, if they don't add any extra load at least. At the very least I will use the mods as soon as I've updated to 6.2.
Tried to get this one installed with directions last night. Might be me but I had a tough time using the text"find" command while editing files. Had to manually search the files for tiny snippets then replace. Figure thats why I got the errors... Anybody install from directions yet?
Finding the text to replace. Seems the format doesn't match whats in my files even though most of it looks the same. I had some serious trouble tryng to copy and paste. I was manually searching for lines and this is a fairly large job... It didn'come out clean on my end so undid what I had started.
Not sure what the best method to upload the files to threadsdeve is, some work very easier than others. I will give it a go again on a new file.
No problems or worries ...I like the toys if I can get them to work
When you view a user's profile as a mod or admin you will see their registration IP and current IP if they are online. You will also see their IP in the showusers pages which results from selecting users from the admin panel.
"Some dream of doing great things, while others stay awake and get on with it." -- Anonymous
Nope... nothing to turn on. Should just work. Go to Admin and select users. There should be a new column in the result table that has Registration IP in it.
"Some dream of doing great things, while others stay awake and get on with it." -- Anonymous
hmm looks like i'm being thick. I must have uploaded the back by accident duhhhh what year is it.
I uploaded the hacked version and tried viewing a profile and got an error, so i must have done it wrong somewhere....i'm going to try and do this again tonight
Hey, Ok I've changed it and I see the new column under the show/edit users section in the admin section. 9/10 of them show the IP as "127.0.0.1" though. Also when I click on a users name on the whose online the "reged ip" section just shows a number rather than an IP, others show nothing. I tried a few names at random and clicked on them from the "who's online" box. For example: Reged IP "5" (is 1 users) Reged IP "5" (another user) Reged IP "" (another user (nothing there) Reged IP "1" (another user)
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Good work. 
