I'm a total newbie at linux, but couldn't you have crownjobs running, querying servers and sending e-mails to customer support if customers changed maxplayers to something too high? Just saying, chmodding autoexec.cfg to 444 and disallowing chmod is the better solution of course
2012/1/3 Ulrich Block <[email protected]>: > Also you can move, chmod and edit files with serveplugins. It is not hard to > replace a file with antother using sourcemod. To prevent such a behavior the > user also should not be able to change the chmod. > > Am 03.01.2012 10:00, schrieb Emil Larsson: > >> Yup, you can probably just simple do "chmod 444 autoexec.cfg" and it's >> basically solved. Or "chmod 744 autoexec.cfg" and then change ownership >> with chown to someone that isn't the "customer". >> >> I admit though, autoexec.cfg is a useful configuration to edit so it's >> probably better still to be able to lock the playercount if you lease >> servers. >> >> 2012/1/3 Björn Rohlén<[email protected]> >> >>> ...or just don't let your customers edit autoexec.cfg? >>> >>> 2012/1/3 Andre Müller<[email protected]> >>> >>>> You can change the cvar maxplayers before the game starts. >>>> When you put this two lines in your autoexec.cfg the maxplayers cvar is >>>> overwritten and fixed (tested with css): >>>> >>>> maxplayers 64 >>>> map de_dust >>>> >>>> Maybe Valve can lock maxplayers, when it is set with -maxplyers in the >>>> start command. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> please visit: >>>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
