Allow moderators to see all events on the /user_events page. Before only
admins could see when a user changed their email, changed their
password, or had a failed login attempt. Now moderators can see these
events too.
Filtering these events out made the /user_actions page slower, and it
wasn't really necessary since merely knowing that a user changed their
email or password isn't that much more sensitive than knowing when they
logged in or out.
Adjust permissions on user events to let Moderators only see login,
logout, and user creation events, not other types of events (password
changes, etc). Admins can see everything. These other types of events
are meant for account security purposes and aren't very relevant for
sockpuppet detection purposes.
Add tracking of certain important user actions. These events include:
* Logins
* Logouts
* Failed login attempts
* Account creations
* Account deletions
* Password reset requests
* Password changes
* Email address changes
This is similar to the mod actions log, except for account activity
related to a single user.
The information tracked includes the user, the event type (login,
logout, etc), the timestamp, the user's IP address, IP geolocation
information, the user's browser user agent, and the user's session ID
from their session cookie. This information is visible to mods only.
This is done with three models. The UserEvent model tracks the event
type (login, logout, password change, etc) and the user. The UserEvent
is tied to a UserSession, which contains the user's IP address and
browser metadata. Finally, the IpGeolocation model contains the
geolocation information for IPs, including the city, country, ISP, and
whether the IP is a proxy.
This tracking will be used for a few purposes:
* Letting users view their account history, to detect things like logins
from unrecognized IPs, failed logins attempts, password changes, etc.
* Rate limiting failed login attempts.
* Detecting sockpuppet accounts using their login history.
* Detecting unauthorized account sharing.