The Full guide into Banning

[zaher1988]

Hello there,

In this tutorial we will pass over Banning

• Banning User Through User Management
  
• Banning By IP / Range Of IPs
  
• Banning By Email
  

Banning User Through User Management

There is 2 ways into accessing to this place

1st by visiting the user's profile and clicking on Ban using admin CP found under admin options.



2nd is by going into Admin CP > Users and Groups > Banning



when going to the banning section u will find a list of all the banned users with some info about them.

Click on ban user

this will result a page where u will be able to add the username, the reason of banning, and duration of this banning.

In both cases after clicking on ban a user, or ban a user using admin cp(under the profile page) you will be taken to the page we are talking about.



So

• [1]enter the user name
  [2]add the reason
  [3]select as banned group
  [4]then in case you want to remove the ban after a period specify it from Lift Ban After.
  

Now the other way of banning is using the settings part
Admin CP > Board Settings > Change > Banning

Here you can Ban using a list of usernames, IPs, Range of IPs, and emails.



Banning by user name:
just add the usernames you want and sperate each one to the other by a single space.

Banning IPs / Range of IPs

• [1] Banning IPs : Add the ip you want followed by the other with a single space in between (e.g. 192.168.0.2 127.123.0.33)
  
  [2] Banning a Range of IPs: Add the range you want for example 192.168.0 dont put the last part of it and a space(e.g. 192.168.0 )
  This will result banning from 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.255.
  It's like a limited sense banning.
  

Banning by email:
You may bann a certain email, so just put the email then a space then the other email.(e.g. [email protected] [email protected])
Or you can also bann a a whole domain , like @hissite.com (e.g. hissite.com mysite.com)

at the end click submit changes.

Regards