Restrict Admin Login by IP

By EssingtonITS team ·
Restrict admin login by IP is a plugin developed, maintained and installed onto EssingtonITS LMS environments giving the ability for site administrators to restrict the networks other administrators can login from. Students or general users are able to login from any location however administrators can be limited to specific IP address or address ranges to prevent unauthorised access from unknown networks using a stolen or leaked administrator username and password. Access "Restrict Admin Login by IP" settings Site Administrator->Plugins->Local Plugins->Restrict Admin Login by IP Add individual ip addresses or network ranges Add a custom error message which will be displayed to the user when logging in from an unauthorised network. Should you lock yourself out by entering an incorrect value add the following to your config.php file to override and disable the plugin $CFG->ralip_disable = 1;  

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