Why should Valve be responsible for fixing people insecure environments?
There are various solutions to this but it just takes proper care and attention to the security issues involved. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian mu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-- Not allowing ftp access isn't a solution (how do people upload maps?), chroot isn't a solution, its certainly a good improvement, but you can still take down a server (whole machine) from a chrooted environment no problem, you just limit any permanent damage done (good). Maybe Valve should implement some system where there's some admins approval list (i.e a file created by admins that specify which custom binaries can be loaded). That could possibly get around the problem I "think", assuming admins also make read only those binaries (wouldn't be too
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