hi.. mark and lewis.. thank you very much for yr suggestions.. i'm running my application in intranet.. so mark suggestion is useful... but how do i capture the ip?? to a database..? or?? pls shed some light to it..
as for lewis.. yr method cant restrict people from having 2 different logins at same machine... and guess... if i combine these 2 suggestions together... it will solve the problem.for me..!! so still a big thank you to u both!!! : ) cheers han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:11 AM Subject: RE: how to prevent user from opening multiple browsers.. > Good point and probably a little bit more cleaner. > > Mark > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lewis Sellers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 11:55 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: how to prevent user from opening multiple browsers.. > > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:15:28 -0500, Mark Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >If I understand you correctly, once a user has logged in, you don't > want > >them to click on the IE icon or Nutscrape and go to your site and log > in > >again? If this is right, just capture their IP on login. When the next > >user logs in, make sure that the IP's aren't the same. > > In general I find that IP's are fairly worthless with anything having > to do with login's unless you are in a controlled intranet. And even > then... > > Basically the simpliest thing to do is simply use a mutex on the > user's database record. That is, a lock, or a numeric field say called > "lock" with a default of 0. When someone logs in you +1 the record. > When they log out you -1 the record. > > Don't allow any more login's when lock is >0. > > Put a timedate field for lock expiration in to allow "incidnets" to > resolves themselves after a peroid of time so the admin isn't hassled > to reset the lock. > > --min > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
