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It gets "hacked" a lot. The problem is it's not quite hacking given that the admin password is given in clear text. But the 12 year olds get joy out of it
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URL doesn't work and also, admins don't reset it any longer.
One of the disadvantages of having an actual live demonstration of the Admin CP is that any idiot can come in and ruin it for everyone else. This has been a problem lately from the users of one of the competitive programs.
We have the demo set to automatically reset itself several times a day because of this, but there's no easy way to make this demo easily accessible to everyone yet keep out the idiots.
And please note this is not 'hacking'. Because this is a live admin demo, anyone can go in and change it. It doesn't take any hacking or skill at all.
Steve, it's unfortunate that this keeps happening.
You try to showcase your product without making people pay to try it, and people have no respect at all for that. If the reset script doesn't use up too many server resources, you could reset it more often, but you'll always be at that disadvantage.
Hopefully someday people will stop acting childish and will respect you and your business.
One of the disadvantages of having an actual live demonstration of the Admin CP is that any idiot can come in and ruin it for everyone else. This has been a problem lately from the users of one of the competitive programs.
We have the demo set to automatically reset itself several times a day because of this, but there's no easy way to make this demo easily accessible to everyone yet keep out the idiots.
And please note this is not 'hacking'. Because this is a live admin demo, anyone can go in and change it. It doesn't take any hacking or skill at all.
Steve is right... and its not hacking in any case its just template modifactions. SAo Technically if they themselves say it was 'hacked' it technically wasn't
Hey, I saw that just today...........! Or make it so that any changes will be reset after having been made for 1 min. So someone could change a template and after 1 min it'll be reset back.
Theoretically possible by creating a database for that user based on the sessionid. Of course it would have to have a session count limit to prevent people from flooding it and then just filling up the entire server with junk databases.
Well think about it... lets say that each demo session will be deleted in 15 minutes after the last activity on the demo. Then have a certain limit on how many demos can be active at a time with some "que" system for when the limit is reached. A signle user can only have one demo to him or her.
...or you can set up something where you need to create a username and pw, and verify an e-mail address. Then, add into the two global.php files code to check that username and pw (HTTP authentication). Finally, set up a script that people can go to if some 12 year old messes with it, and it'll send some administrator a note with (a) the IP, (b) the e-mail address, and (c) the time so that they can check the logs, and see what page referred the person to the admin demo, and you can contact the owner of THAT page....
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