Search Security Log by Global ID?

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Forum URL: guitarnuts2.proboards.com/


Unless I'm missing something somewhere it doesn't seem possible to search the Security Log by Global ID (email address).

Filtering by IP address can be very useful in the case of a nuisance poster. That makes it possible to identify member account creations (new) which indicate alt accounts.  We can be proactive and disable alt accounts.  However, there have been time when someone is using a rolling proxy or VPN but they happen to use the same email account.  The IP address then becomes rather meaningless.

Unfortunately, email address can be used as confirmation when comparing two suspect profiles but not to actually find the alt account in the first place.

Perhaps worthy of a Feature Request?

[Scott]

Retread, in the meantime, maybe this will help: link

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Thanks for the link, Scott

I made the changes on my test forum and there are two problems. The first is probably easily dealt with the second probably can't be fixed.

1 - This makes the email information in the additional column visible only to user/1. On our forum there are three additional members who are Administrators (with all the powers available enabled). Our root admin visits about twice per year. I would need to change the {if $[current_user.id] == 1} to decide based on group or add three more user.ids. In any case, that could probably be twisted around to make it work.

2 - The Email column is not sortable. If were sortable, paging through our 3500+ members to get to the email address of the suspect member(s) would be somewhat difficult but still possible. There would be at least some functionality in identifying a suspect. But don't think making that column sortable is an option.

We should probably abandon this pursuit or put it on the back-burner, as it's Monday and I'm sure you have a backlog more important things to deal with. But if you'd mark this as a Feature Request, I'd be much obliged and keep my fingers crossed one of the development team might consider adding a sort by Global ID a worthy addition to the Security Log.

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I'd also love this as a feature, just throwing my vote in there haha

[Former Member]

Retread, this thread has been labeled as a feature request.