0004821: Ban List

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0004821	mantisbt	administration	public	2004-11-06 12:09	2014-10-14 16:21

Reporter	codemastr	Assigned To	grangeway
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	0.19.1

Summary	0004821: Ban List
Description	I think it would be nice if Mantis supported a ban list. I don't know about others, but every now and then, we get idiots who think it is fun to submit a bunch of bug reports that simply contain random letters. Yeah, I then go and delete their account, but they can rather easily just create another one and start posting again. I think having a list of banned IPs would be very useful. This would kind of be related to 0004820 which suggests keeping track of the IP a user logged in with. Basically, there would be a list in the admin section that allows two things. 1.) Specifying a list of usernames to ban (with wildcards) and 2.) A list of IPs to ban (with wildcards). I think that would be very helpful for keeping some of these idiots out.
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vboctor 2004-11-15 08:15 manager ~0008341	I don't think we should build this directly into Mantis. But it should be possible to add a custom function that can be overriden implement such check. I just don't think it is worth implementing all the code for administering, storing, and maintaing this information (as part of the core implementation of Mantis).

vwegert 2005-03-17 14:27 reporter ~0009571	Plus, with dynamic dialup IP addresses, what's the point in banning IPs?

grangeway 2014-10-05 13:59 reporter ~0041388	This is functionality that would be best implemented as a plugin. (Previously suggested that we would be unlikely to do this and to consider a custom function) In 1.3, we'll like have a few more plugin hooks that would allow some additional places to hook in to a check a ban list e.g. email addresses.