How Do You Ban/Block a User?

Worker Joined: Jan 22, 2007 Posts: 104

I know that I can delete a User, and that I can ban an IP via the IPBan or via Nuke Sentinel. Is there a way I can lock out a User account such that they account can no longer be used, but they can still visit the website? I thought about just changing the password, but then they could simply retrieve the password via the 'forgot password' automatic retrieval mechanism.

There probably is a really easy way to do this, and I'm just missing it. So, how to I block a user from accessing their account without putting an IP ban in place?

registered · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:44 pm

You can't do this with the standard Your_Account module, unfortunately. CNBYA can do this though.

What I've done is just hack Your_Account to ignore registration attempts if they come from a list of bad email addresses. Of course the user can still just register with a different email address, but it is still somewhat effective.

Hopefully in the future we will upgrade Your_Account to have more admin friendly features like this.

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

Why not just change the email address to something else and change the password? They can request the password all they want, but it will go to whatever email address (e.g. noone@example.com) you set?

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:15 pm

kguske wrote:

Why not just change the email address to something else and change the password? They can request the password all they want, but it will go to whatever email address (e.g. noone@example.com) you set?

Ahhh... common sense. You know. I heard there was a forest around here, but all I see are these stupid trees. Smile

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:10 am

Yeah good idea kguske. However, there is a chance they'll get mad and register again, and now they can use their original email address again.

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:57 am

Simple add the old email address into NukeSentinels string blocker. Smile

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:11 pm

Touche!

Still it would be nice if Your_Account handled this. Smile

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:13 pm

Gremmie, I agree fully because this solution is more like a quick fix. For example with this solution you can´t publish in your forums a list of unwanted email addresses because you ´ll get blocked asap.