»How to protect your phpBB forum against hackers«

To add this mod to your phpBB do the following:    •  Open in "includes/sessions.php"
    •  Find if ( $auto_create )
        {

    •  Add after: @include_once('allowedadminipsforautologin.php');
if (!allow_autologin_based_on_ips($userdata,$user_ip))
    {
    unset($sessiondata['autologinid']);
    }

    •  Edit "allowedadminipsforautologin.php" to add your allowed admin IPs
    •  You can also edit "allowedadminipsforautologin.php" to set whether you want a strict IP check for users (= non admins) or a loose one
    •  Upload into the "includes/" folder the attached file (see below) "allowedadminipsforautologin.php".

To add this mod to your phpBB do the following:

•     Open in "includes/sessions.php"    
  
•     Find
if ( $auto_create )
{     
  
•     Add after:
@include_once('allowedadminipsforautologin.php');
if (!allow_autologin_based_on_ips($userdata,$user_ip))
{
$auto_login_key = 'xyz'; // Set password to something it could never be
}     
  
•     Upload into the "includes/" folder the attached file (see below) "allowedadminipsforautologin.php".