^{Ban 1.0}

The BAN module allows users with administrators privileges to manage the ban of IP addresses for the current site and for all sites hosted on the server. Precautions have to be taken for security issues, like protected access to this module.

Note: DMS functions which weren't implemented at the time of the module's design had to be overloaded to ensure the module's proper running.

Figure 1 : Editor interface of the BAN module

(1) : This edit zone lets you set the default ban duration (units: minutes).

The client interface looks like this :

Click Add to ban a new user. In the popup window (see example in the above screenshot), enter the IP address of the user and its ban duration. Use a 255 mask to ban a whole range of IP addresses. For example, 123.123.123.255 will ban all IP addresses from 123.123.123.0 to 123.123.123.255.
Click Delete to stop the ban before the set duration expires. Please first select the IP address to be "freed".

Open the Creation Tree of the SCS, select the Admin file, then double-click on Ban 1.0. Click on OK to validate the Editor's options.
Then implement all links that are necessary to the project.