I'm looking for a sensible solution - ideally a CB Plugin, that would enable administrator users to setup IP tracking and banning options for user accounts.
My client is concerned that various members are sharing their login credentials with friends, and bypassing the payment they'd otherwise need to make as a user of their site through CBSubs.
Seeing as how IP addresses are already recorded to usernames, would it be possible to limit the number of different IPs a given account can use in a given time period?
ejde wrote: I'm looking for a sensible solution - ideally a CB Plugin, that would enable administrator users to setup IP tracking and banning options for user accounts.
My client is concerned that various members are sharing their login credentials with friends, and bypassing the payment they'd otherwise need to make as a user of their site through CBSubs.
Seeing as how IP addresses are already recorded to usernames, would it be possible to limit the number of different IPs a given account can use in a given time period?
CB Antispam can be configured to not allow multiple login sessions.
Thanks for the reply, nant. That goes part of the way. But, unfortunately for our purposes at least, that doesn't cover all of my client's needs.
They are concerned not just that multiple people are using a given account simultaneously, but that they are sharing it with friends, who might be using it sporadically throughout a given 24-hour period. More specifically, they have requested that I configure the site to prohibit the same user account to be logged in more than 3 times from differing IPs in a 24-hour period. They could login unlimited amount of times from up to 3 IPs, but as soon as a 4th occurs, they'd like to be notified and/or have the account deactivated.
I realize there isn't a good mechanism for this kind of a request, but thought it might not be too difficult to entertain the idea of creating one.
nant