[support] Tracking user IP addresses for duplicate accounts

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com>:

> 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? :-)
>

I'm going to suggest you do a browser search looking for ``ip address'' 
at http://drupal.org/project/Modules/name.  There are many interesting 
hits that you may want to employ; including 
http://drupal.org/project/restrict_by_ip.

Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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