{"id":57,"date":"2008-12-16T07:47:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T11:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=57"},"modified":"2010-11-14T19:12:07","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T00:12:07","slug":"phpbb-force-login-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2008\/12\/16\/phpbb-force-login-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"phpBB force login hack"},"content":{"rendered":"

To set up a private forum in phpBB<\/a>, 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:<\/p>\n

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  1. Open up index.php from your phpBB installation.<\/li>\n
  2. After line 25 (“$auth->acl($user->data);<\/strong>“), add the following code:
    \n\/\/ Hack to disable anonymous viewing
    \nif ($user->data[‘user_id’] == ANONYMOUS || $user->data[‘is_bot’])
    \n{
    \nlogin_box();
    \n} else {<\/li>\n
  3. After the line “page_header($user->lang[‘INDEX’]);<\/strong>“, add the following code:
    \n\/\/ end hack to disable anonymous viewing
    \n};<\/li>\n
  4. Re-upload index.php to your web server. Don’t forget to clear your cache and log out to see the effect.<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[306,307,274,309,310,305,308,311,312,313],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}