Find out the IP that sent a PM?

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  • Reeve of Shinra
    Senior Member
    • Sep 2001
    • 4325
    • 4.0.0

    Find out the IP that sent a PM?

    On one of my sites, the admin team received a PM from a user asking to have their account deleted. How can I find the IP address that sent the PM? The user believes his account was hijacked.

    To make things more interesting -- it looks like the admin who deleted the account may have been the one to hijack it. According to the logs - this admin edited the users accounts minutes before the PM was sent. Is there anyway I can drill down further to see if the account password was specifically changed?

    Thanks
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  • BarryoBrien
    Senior Member
    • Jan 2007
    • 104
    • 3.6.x

    #2
    Go into your admin cp and go to the users name in the member's list in the cp all their info is there.
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    • Dilly
      Senior Member
      • Mar 2005
      • 1812

      #3
      That didn't really answer his question. There is no way to 'drill down' to find if the password was changed.

      I don't think IP addresses are saved for PMs, but i'm happy to be corrected.

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      • Reeve of Shinra
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2001
        • 4325
        • 4.0.0

        #4
        I checked the PM tables and there isn't a field for IP addresses which is kind of surprising since every other interaction through the forum gets logged that way.
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        • cujo
          Senior Member
          • Sep 2005
          • 108
          • 3.6.x

          #5
          What about checking the raw web server (ie. Apache) log files to see who accessed private.php around that time?
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