Account Disabling

[Draker]

I wonder if it would be possible to write up a mod which would allow Admins (Or Global Moderators) to disable user accounts - Not delete or ban them -  but to disallow people from loggin in until such time as the account has been reactivated.

The problem I am facing is that I believe I have one person with two different accounts, posting both sides of a discussion.  However, until I am certain of this, I don't want to just delete the user, because I may be wrong, and then its rather hard to un-delete.

But if a mod were in place such that the next time this person/people attempted to log in, and they got an error message saying "Your account has been disabled.  Please contact the forum administrator for further assistance" or something, it would help out (or at least help me out.)

[Aquilo]

have you checked the ip address to see if they are in the same block??

I was looking at the code for banning and I banned a test account and I'm gonna have to remove the cookie to login as admin again you cant stay logged in once you click any link your "disabled".

if you don't ban folks and you need something temporary
you could change the text:

$txt[430] = ', Your account has been disabled.  Please contact the forum administrator for further assistance';

banning is quite effective what level of disablement do you mean.

You could create another entry in the banned table and make type=disabled value=$username
Then do a query in banned() to display a custom message if the user is disabled but it's the same thing

Aquilo

[Spaceman-Spiff]

you can try installing the Mute Mod, follow the white rabbit link in my sig