http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/ Effectively designing your site. Tips, tricks, and etcetera. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:51:13 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/ http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/design/34482-keeping-pesky-varmints-out.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:33:13 GMT Hi all,

Got a bit of a problem and thought I'd run it past you guys (and girls) to ask if anyone can drop me some ideas how to fix this issue.

I have a member based section that is password protected. The user management script is php and it writes the users details to a database.

The issue...I have is a user who had their free membership declined and is now signing up with to multiple accounts.

Not that he can gain access because all applications are manually verified. However it's a pain in butt.

Although I can use a .htaccess file to block IP's or entire IP blocks it's useless in this situation because the user IP is dynamic. If I were to block the entire IP range I'd be block legitimate users too.

I had the idea of dropping a cookie into each peeps PC from the sign-up page. As only one registered user is allowed per PC/household I though this would be an affective way to stop this person abusing the registration form.

However the obvious flaw is if one deletes their cookies.

So if anyone has a better idea or some other suggestion to fix this problem I'd sure appreciate the input.



Cheers

Dave ]]> Design AussieDave http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/design/34482-keeping-pesky-varmints-out.html