Legacy Hide Administrators IP Address

[Mick]

Hi again,

I thought it would be a nice idea to HIDE administrators IP address's from the Post IP's.

For example, when a moderator looks at the IP address of the poster if the user is an admin it says nothing...

I do not really like the idea of moderators having my IP address, I have nothing to hide lol... but just thought as an admin I would prefer that my IP was a secret.

Thank you for your consideration.

Regards
Mick

 

[Ozzy47]

Edit the template, postbit_ip and change it to this:

<vb:if condition="$post['userid'] != X">
<vb:if condition="$show['ip']">
<img class="inline" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/ip-40b.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase ip}" title="{vb:rawphrase ip}: {vb:raw post.ip}" />
<vb:else />
<a class="ip" href="{vb:raw $vboptions.vbforum_url}{vb:if "$vboptions['vbforum_url']", '/', ''}postings.php?{vb:raw session.sessionurl}do=getip&p={vb:raw post.postid}" title="{vb:rawphrase ip}: {vb:raw post.ip}">  <!-- <img class="inlineimg" src="{vb:stylevar imgdir_button}/ip-40b.png" alt="{vb:rawphrase ip}" title="{vb:rawphrase ip}: {vb:raw post.ip}" /> --></a>
</vb:if>
</vb:if>

X being what ever your userid is.

 

[Mick]

Would that also work in the moderators IP search?

I just thought as a security measure it would be good to not have any IP's stored for admin?

But that is a really nice template mod

Mick

 

[Fillip H.]

Unfortunately it's impossible to hide your IP address and still have all the functionality of vBulletin intact. vBulletin stores your IP addresses in an unalterable variable way before plugins are loaded (or even user info - in fact, it's defined before the database connection is made), so what Ozzy posted is really the best we can do unfortunately

 

[Ozzy47]

There is a few options, I can change it from a template edit to a plugin, so it will be safe from upgrades. As far as the IP being searchable in the modcp, I can do a cron job that will change your post ip to something different.