Request : blocked users

zeromechanic · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:55 pm

Maybe an idea to put an extra to the blocked IP menu.

A list with only blocked users.
unfortunaly respected users get blocked sometimes.

it would be much easier to unblock them with a list based on username, instead of searching through the IP list.

grtz ZeroMechanic

fkelly · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:03 pm

You might have a point, however I think you will find that most who get blocked are anonymous. So it is not really going to buy you that much to have that option. On the site that I run, when a "respected user" gets banned I hear about it pretty quickly by email or some other direct source. But the ratio of "respected users" to hackers who get banned is probably 1 to 100.

zeromechanic · Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:24 pm

I understand, but it wil be a userfriendly option in Sentinel.

eg.
one of my users get's blocked while posting a code snippet as an example.
NS sends me an abuse message.
Several also with anonymous users.
The user sends me also an email, he doesn't know his IP (say he/she is a starter with nuke etc....)

now come's my thing in.
In this case i have to read all the abuse mails from NS to find his IP.
Could take a lot of time(and i misplaced some of it, can't find it back Razz

) if you receive lots of abuse mail.

Could use the forum, but what if it is his first post..

Then this would be a useful option in NS.

It doesn't have to be a separate list, but changing the IP in the blocked list to a username would also be perfect.

I only unblock if the users sends me a request.
And if i can save some time with it.... Very Happy

Susann · Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 4:37 pm

"I only unblock if the users sends me a request."

From 10 banned members I usally get only 1-2 requests to unban.
Maybe they are shocked. Smile

The most are dynamically IPS. So you need to unblock them after a certain time or you ban the wrong guys. I often check my logfiles because there its easily to find out that I banned harmless guys.

zeromechanic · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:35 pm

did this :

in nukesentinel/ABBlockedIP.php

find :

Code:

$getIPs['flag_img'] = flag_img($getIPs['c2c']);

add after :

Code:

// tweak : name instead of IP
if ($getIPs['user_id'] == 1) {
$showname = $getIPs['ip_addr'];
}
else {
$showname = $getIPs['username'];
}
// end tweak

find :

Code:

echo "<td>".info_img(""._AB_USERAGENT.": $ua "._AB_QUERY.": $qs "._AB_GET.": $gs "._AB_POST.": $ps")." <a href=\"".$ab_config['lookup_link']."$lookupip\" target=\"".$getIPs['ip_long']."\">".$getIPs['ip_addr']."</a></td>\n";

in line find :

Code:

".$getIPs['ip_addr']."

replace with :

Code:

$showname

For the people that find this useful.

grtz ZeroMechanic

Susann · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:26 pm

I´m sure there will be some guys who find this useful.
Thanks for posting. Wink