[support] Tracking user IP addresses for duplicate accounts

Larry Garfield larry at garfieldtech.com
Thu Mar 13 09:02:01 UTC 2008


Hi again!

Another challenge I have is on one site, users keep signing up multiple times 
with more than one account.  That's a problem, as multiple accounts is 
against our site's TOS since we frequently have votes that are 
one-vote-per-account.  Our legacy system that we killed when we moved to 
Drupal had built-in IP logging every time a user logged in, so we could go in 
and check IP addresses in case we suspected a duplicate user.  We could also 
see the IP address someone signed up from, and match that against any 
recently logged IPs.

Does anyone know of a similar tool for Drupal, or is this another module I'm 
going to have to write myself? :-)

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Larry Garfield			AIM: LOLG42
larry at garfieldtech.com		ICQ: 6817012

"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of 
exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, 
which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to 
himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession 
of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."  -- Thomas 
Jefferson


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