I was thinking of a way to test cunc's question -- by making a new username and banning it from my login, but seeing that the ban is apparently of the ip - i would be banning me, wouldnt i?
Im glad to see this put in -- Heine was a humungus big pain in the ass last night, (major props out to Hephaestos for trailing and keeping a sense of humour about it) --
Still maybe cung is right --in case this isnt already on the plate -- A routinely upadted shortlist of sysop ips for a check against a "ban username" function -- might be appropriate. With each login, the each user ip is updated. Only rarely might a conflict arise due to a same-ip range for dynamic ip sysops and potential problem user.
-S-
--- The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com wrote:
From: Tim Starling I did a quick hack which allows sysops to ban
logged-in users. This was
discussed on wikien-l long, long ago, and was
widely agreed to be a good
idea (well, not that widely, but Jimbo was
particularly keen). Basically
you just type the username into the ban IP box. I
changed a few messages to
indicate that you could do it.
I assume that sysops can be banned through this interface as well. The hack sounds pretty ugly. Banning by username should be done by banning through the login (i.e. the cookies) not by checking IP.
Have these changes been checked in?
This is not something that should go live without discussion on the main mailing list.
-tc
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