In a support thread titled “Can I reset the IP of ALL users on my forum?”, danielabc asks if it’s possible to reset their own and all users’ IP addresses to remove old or unwanted entries—particularly to hide their IP from appearing in other users’ security logs. Lilly suggests a Meta Discourse topic about disabling IP logging entirely. pfaffman offers a technical solution via Rails console, advising to run User.all.update_all(last_ip: nil) after identifying the correct field name using User.last, and reminds users to exit the pager with q and make a backup first. danielabc reports a crash after running User.last, but pfaffman clarifies it’s just the pager and guides them to scroll and exit properly. Canapin corrects the field name to ip_address (via Data Explorer) and warns danielabc about accidentally leaking user password data in a screenshot, advising affected users to change passwords if not using test accounts. The thread combines troubleshooting, security advice, and data privacy best practices.
So, before I didn’t use VPN and now I’m using it, but my old IP shows, is there a way to reset my IP and everyone else’s so it doesn’t show the old ones anymore?
Other than that I also entered the account of some members and I don’t want them to see in the security part that my IP is in their account, resetting this would not show it anymore?
not sure about resetting the IPs but there is this topic about not logging them.
I think something like
./launcher enter app
rails c
User.last
User.all.update_all(last_ip: nil)
I’m not sure what the field name for the last ip is, so you’ll look at the fields in User.last to find its name. You type q to leave the pager.
What do you mean “everything crashes”? That’s the pager that I said you’d type a q to leave. You should first hit the space bar to scroll down to find the ip address. You’ll also then type exit a couple of times to get out of rails and then the container.
You should probably make a backup before you do this.
According to data explorer, it should be ip_address.
Also daniela, I’d suggest you don’t paste screenshots leaking password information about your users. I’ve edited your screenshot, but since it was visible for hours, if it’s not a test account, you should ask this user to change their password.
