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phpBB force login hack
By admin | December 16, 2008
To set up a private forum in phpBB, you could simply make all the forums “No Access” to guests and bots. But if they can still view your member list and profiles, that is a security leak. Here is a patch to remedy that by forcing the guest or bot to login before they can see the forum:
- Open up index.php from your phpBB installation.
- After line 25 (“$auth->acl($user->data);“), add the following code:
// Hack to disable anonymous viewing
if ($user->data[‘user_id’] == ANONYMOUS || $user->data[‘is_bot’])
{
login_box();
} else { - After the line “page_header($user->lang[‘INDEX’]);“, add the following code:
// end hack to disable anonymous viewing
}; - Re-upload index.php to your web server. Don’t forget to clear your cache and log out to see the effect.
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Topics: PHP | 15 Comments »
December 13th, 2009 at 14:55
This actually works! I just wasted about 15 minutes searching around for a modification that would do the job for me, when all I needed to do was manually add a few lines of code. Thanks for the useful post.
October 30th, 2010 at 10:30
Hack again?!
February 11th, 2013 at 11:22
Great! It really works!
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