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Nemesis
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Posted: 20th Sep 2002 18:55
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Why are our IP's displayed with our posts for all to see? I for one don't like the idea of my IP being viewable by any person who wanders onto the board.
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 20th Sep 2002 19:43
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Where is it being displayed ?

Yes, I really am THAT good...
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Nemesis
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Posted: 20th Sep 2002 20:59
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For me, in every thread in the DBpro discussion forum, and last time I checked I wasn't a mod or anything.

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Nemesis
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Posted: 20th Sep 2002 21:16
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Woah! Major weirdass errors going on here. If I can obtain moderator powers by accident, I daren't think how unsecure this MB system is.

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jburrows
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Posted: 21st Sep 2002 00:23
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Well in every forum except general talk forum I see everybodies ip address.As a modderator on some other messageboards people sometimes have what I call "multiple personalities" where they had more than 1 username and this way you can tell easily if they are the same person or not.They would use those other usernames for inapropriate things.This way when there ip's are posted you can find who is actually who.
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Richard Davey
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Posted: 21st Sep 2002 03:53
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"Woah! Major weirdass errors going on here. If I can obtain moderator powers by accident, I daren't think how unsecure this MB system is."

Actually it's supposed to show them - you have no moderator powers and I can assure you this forum is probably a lot more secure than any other out there (and I'm happy to take up any challenge on that!).

I can disable the showing of IPs on a per board basis, but it's very useful for spotting lamers/spammers/multiple personalities - however we've not had any of those yet so if it continues like that I'll turn off the IPs for all but moderators.

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Rich

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2002 08:05
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Could you possible give the user control over displaying thier IPs?
I mean I don't mind my IP for the moderators/admins to see however ... I don't feel very safe with it there for everyone else - I know i have a Firewall just incase, but it does make me feel edgy.
Even more so when people from RGT start to trickle over

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2002 17:37
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Okay, I'll hide the IPs to all but mods and adminds.

Cheers,

Rich

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Ian T
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2002 17:42
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Good good . Only mods should be on the lookout for multipersonalites anyhow. Thank Richs!

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2002 22:15
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Cool Thanks

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rapscaLLion
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2002 22:56
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Ya, thanks. I have a static IP, easy to hack. Of course I also have a hardware and two software firewalls... but no computer is hack-proof

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John111
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2002 23:09
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Personally don't bother me - although I think all IP's should be displayed. Then if any of us end up with wierd port scans and what have you we could at least tell if a mod was f'kin about couldnt we - call me paranoid but I don't even trust the mods...

Mind you I suppose it's upto personal preference, applauds to Rich for taking the sensible approach.

John

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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 23rd Sep 2002 23:24
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hahaa Raps, still putting expresso in your kitties water?
Think its about time he stared in something you make
Can see it now, your in a kitchen and you have to collect all the Nescafé Jars ;D

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Tapewormz
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Posted: 24th Sep 2002 14:54
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If you're that worried about your IP, then log into the boards via an annonymiser like http://www.megaproxy.com and visit this page. Unless you have dial-up, in which case you shouldn't worry about your IP at all. It's gonna be different everytime you login.

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Rob K
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Posted: 27th Sep 2002 02:03
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Hmm... Rich, are you 100% sure about that?

Change the querystring to go to a board that doesn't exist, create a new topic in this "empty" board then try and save it. The entire SQL query is shown for that action. The reason this is significant is because it gives the database name and other "useful" info. I expect that is not a big deal though. More worryingly you can reveal the actual UNIX root to the website on the Yabbse board.

what is a signature?
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Rob K
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Posted: 27th Sep 2002 02:09
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one very minor flaw:

Warning: Division by zero in /usr/www/users/pairdoor/dbpro/apollo/includes/function_misc.php on line 91

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rapscaLLion
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Posted: 27th Sep 2002 03:18
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lol, no vegeta, no coffee, just pure caffine pills
Unfortunatly, the thing is building up a tolerance, and his shaking is starting to register on the richter scale

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