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Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves [message #37636 is a reply to message #37634]

Mon, 11 June 2007 12:17

Underhand

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Dustin Kowalski wrote on Mon, 11 June 2007 09:30

I already banned it! It's still online right now, and has been (browsing different topics) every time I've checked!

I think I'll just have to change it to a shorter name and be happy with that ...

Thanks Ilia.

The ban prevents new logins with that account, but apparently did not prevent access to existing sessions.

I've matched up the times of the strange events to accesses in the apache log file, from the google bot.

After purging old sessions, it was visible that there was one session left with that user ID in the session table despite the ban. Removing that session from the database seems to have done the trick, although it's too early to be 100% sure.

The original problem appears to have been the posting of a URL to a forum page that accidentally contained session tracking information, leading to the google bot spidering as a privileged user, and triggering undesirable actions in the process.

(... the other admin)

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		Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Dustin Kowalski on Sun, 27 May 2007 19:40
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Ilia on Mon, 28 May 2007 22:49
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Dustin Kowalski on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:09
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Dustin Kowalski on Tue, 29 May 2007 10:14
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Ilia on Tue, 29 May 2007 20:17
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Dustin Kowalski on Tue, 29 May 2007 22:19
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Dustin Kowalski on Sun, 10 June 2007 12:18
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Ilia on Mon, 11 June 2007 01:58
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Dustin Kowalski on Mon, 11 June 2007 08:30
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Underhand on Mon, 11 June 2007 12:17
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Dustin Kowalski on Mon, 11 June 2007 21:42
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Ilia on Mon, 11 June 2007 22:11
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Underhand on Tue, 12 June 2007 11:07
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Ernesto on Wed, 13 June 2007 07:04
		Re: Stop The Forums Running Themselves By: Dustin Kowalski on Wed, 13 June 2007 09:56

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