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September 01, 2012 11:02pm
Subscribe [1]#1 / Sep 01, 2012 11:02pm
Do wildcards work for this? The docs do not seem to say one way or the other.
For example… I don’t want people pretending to be the President. So could I use simply *obama* or would I need to layout all the various iterations thereof?
President Obama
PresidentObama
Barack Obama
BarackObama
Obama
etc…
On a different, yet loosely related matter… I read on these forums that there are systemic limitations with the IP banning feature. Has that issue/bug been resolved?
Thank you.
#2 / Sep 05, 2012 11:07am
Hi Brainwrek,
Yep, wildcards should work just fine. If you use these two lines in the username banning field, you should be good to go:
*obama
*ObamaWhat limitations of the IP banning feature are you referring to?
#3 / Sep 05, 2012 4:13pm
Ok, thank you for that. Will test it out.
What limitations of the IP banning feature are you referring to?
This is the issue I’m talking about:
http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/218080/
Wondering if it’s fixed?
#4 / Sep 06, 2012 3:53pm
It’s not been dealt with in ExpressionEngine yet, but as Shane noted, you can drastically extend the limit by changing the MySQL field type to MEDIUMTEXT from TEXT.