If they change it, just charge more.. put it in that "thing that nobody reads when they say agree" ;-)
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Asher Baker Sent: dinsdag 3 januari 2012 12:41 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] please lock maxplayers Nope, monitoring and disabling malicious customers is the best solution. There are plenty of ways to change maxplayers. autoexec.cfg has plenty of legitimate uses. On 3 Jan 2012, at 11:35, Drogen Viech <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
