similar module exists

I didn't realize. I was about to commit the changes that we where talking about after I figured out the update_N hook code and adding the description field back in. ip_login seems to be based off of the profile module. I'll have to try it out. Thank you for letting me know.

Just wanted to add my 2cents that ip_login doesn't appear to do a few things I need which maybe ip_authenticator can?

1. Handle complex ranges like 100.100.1-100.1-100 (or atleast the value is just stored as text and there's no documentation about what pattern matching the module is doing on that value). Obviously, I could split that single range up into hundreds of smaller ranges but that only makes my second point more critical...
2. Handle multiple ranges for the same user
3. Allow a user to elect to log in using username/password to gain additional privileges even though they've been ip authenticated already

It sounds like ip_authenticator might be able to do these things. If so, I think there's still a need for this module despite the availability of ip_login.

I tried downloading the official version 6 release of ip_authenticator but it doesn't seem to match up to what you've written recently on the project page. Is an updated version coming?

Thanks!