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by Nicholas the Italian
Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:37 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: [Discussion] Downtime and Server Compromise
Replies: 353
Views: 511464

Re: [Discussion] Downtime and Server Compromise

Marshalrusty wrote:We have the choice of either reverting to an old "safe" backup or sanitising gigabytes of information.
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by "sanitising"?

Anyway, good luck and thanks for the hard work to all phpbb teams.
by Nicholas the Italian
Mon Feb 02, 2009 2:57 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: [Discussion] Downtime and Server Compromise
Replies: 353
Views: 511464

Re: [Discussion] Downtime and Server Compromise

ToonArmy wrote:Not if the hashes are salted which the new phpBB3 ones are, you would need to generate a rainbow table for each common word plus the salt which is nigh on impossible.
I was talking of simple MD5 (or SHA) hashes (which are still the most used, btw).
by Nicholas the Italian
Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:49 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: [Discussion] Downtime and Server Compromise
Replies: 353
Views: 511464

Re: [Discussion] Downtime and Server Compromise

The problem with a single md5 hash is that, if the hash is known, there are ways to find a string that maybe is not the same as the actual password, but that does generate the same hash (a so-called collision). A common way to do that is to use rainbow tables; huge tables that map from every possib...
by Nicholas the Italian
Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:03 am
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Ban by IP address, unban by name?
Replies: 6
Views: 15006

Re: Ban by IP address, unban by name?

paulus wrote:Iam prettty sure this is already possible with the exclude function in core.
Looking right now. If it works as I think, it's great but definitely not clear.

[edit] @ Prince: even with ADSL, adresses are dynamic.
by Nicholas the Italian
Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:51 am
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Ban by IP address, unban by name?
Replies: 6
Views: 15006

Ban by IP address, unban by name?

Hi, throwing there an idea based on a real problem. There's a banned user who keeps re-subscribing and invading my board. The problem would probably be solved banning quite a wide range of IP addresses, but if I do there's at least one legit user that results banned too. Possible solution: an "...
by Nicholas the Italian
Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:30 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Styling
Topic: <!-- PHP --> not work in templates
Replies: 3
Views: 21243

Re: <!-- PHP --> not work in templates

1) Such questions should be asked on phpbb.com
2) You need to enable PHP in templates in Security section of Admin Panel.
3) Make sure you refresh the template from Admin Panel and clear your browser cache after you've modified the code
4)
writeln ('test');
What's this, Pascal? :P
by Nicholas the Italian
Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:30 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Styling
Topic: can i too, get the yellow color highlight for my topics ????
Replies: 4
Views: 11059

Re: can i too, get the yellow color highlight for my topics ????

If you mean the yellow shade when the mouse cursor is over the element, you need to apply something like

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tr:hover { background-color: whatever }
to the element you want to change in the CSS file.

This is more a question for phpbb.com though.
by Nicholas the Italian
Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:17 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: Is there a E-R schema of phpBB database?
Replies: 2
Views: 9621

Is there a E-R schema of phpBB database?

...or some other documentation?

Thanks.
by Nicholas the Italian
Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:14 pm
Forum: [3.0/Olympus] Discussion
Topic: unique_id function
Replies: 21
Views: 35014

Re: unique_id function

As for spoofing your IP address, you are correct, TCP requires a 3-way handshake, thus making it impossible to simply spoof your IP address and get results. Well, you could spoof a TCP packet and make it look like a UDP packet. :P (Webservers listen for UDP packets on :80, don't they?) Still, whate...