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[Breadfan]

I know this is a weird question, but here it goes:
Is there any way of limiting member's access to the forum only from his say, home computer and not from anywhere else?

One of my member's account was compromised and accessed from one of his work coleagues. Obviously, I can ask him to promise me not to login from his work computer ever again and use the account only when he's at home, but that's not good enough, so I was wondering is there any..other way of limiting his access through some sort of extra authentification or something?

Thanks in advance

Edited by Breadfan, 04 July 2010 - 01:52 PM.

[peterc]

This would be interesting to me too. I believe there is a Mudd hook or Mod that might give this for you but not sure.

[AndyF]

One simple solution if its possible: If the 'work' computers have a static IP, you could consider banning it so they are unable to login from there...

[Breadfan]

^^That was the first thing on my mind, but our croatian internet provider has dynamic IP addresses ie. the user address changes every 24hrs.
If there was a way for example..to identify home computer..or, as a posted before me said, some sort of mod.

Edited by Breadfan, 04 July 2010 - 05:07 PM.

[tedebear]

yes i'm pretty sure MUDD does what your asking

[Martin]

I believe this can be difficult, unless you have some static data to identify the work computer by. On example of this would be a static IP.

You can tweak the session settings to only allow one computer to stay logged, but that's not a bulletproof thing either, as it requires him to log in from his home computer once he get home.