I am slightly reluctant to do this, since I use rcon fairly often.  Do real
game servers do this as well?  Also, is there a way to change the default
rcon port to something different than the game port?  IE: have srcds on
27015, but the rcon port be 27025?

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Crazy Canucks <crazy_canu...@rogers.com>wrote:

> Do that, but you should also block the rcon port at your firewall, which
> is the tcp protocol for your game port.
>
> Drek
>
> [AF] House of Fail wrote:
> > A side Note:  If I set my rcon_password to "" (ie no password) does this
> > deny all rcon attempts?
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, [AF] House of Fail <aidsf...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >> My rcon pw was not an easily bruteforced pw (different case letters,
> with
> >> more then 14 chars).  I have no log of any attempts, execpt for the
> actual
> >> rcon, coming from the IP of the person who claimed he did it.  We do use
> >> custom maps, but they are commonly used maps, (Ie cs_crackhouse).
>  Sv_cheats
> >> was not on at the time.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Seather <seat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> also,
> >>>
> >>> re: sv cheats comment
> >>> as i recall it was a command like ent_fire, this may have been fixed
> >>> by adding another restrictive flag to it,
> >>> if not, there are many command blocking plugins,
> >>> http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=73828
> >>>
> >>> a plugin to listen for commands sent to the server
> >>> http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=75648
> >>>
> >>> many people make use of a quick sv_cheats 1 then sv_cheats 0 method,
> >>> its feasible cheat program could sneak a command into this small
> >>> window.
> >>>
> >>> if your do custom maps on your server, especially ones created by
> >>> people you know,
> >>> they might be setting your rcon password / etc, with a map entity,
> >>> point_servercommand,
> >>> grep -ai ,Command, *.bsp
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Seather <seat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> i'm guessing that the most common problem involves admins uploading
> >>>> too many files to their fast download website, (server.cfg)
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:48 PM, [AF] House of Fail <
> >>>>
> >>> aidsf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> My rcon password was recently compromised by someone.  I spoke with
> him
> >>>>> before he got it and he claimed he used a modified version of csdos
> to
> >>>>>
> >>> get
> >>>
> >>>>> it.  I am reluctant to post it here, but I can email it privately to
> a
> >>>>>
> >>> valve
> >>>
> >>>>> employee.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I currently have Sourcemod, Metamod:Source, and Eventscripts
> installed
> >>>>>
> >>> on my
> >>>
> >>>>> server (A css server) if it makes any difference.  I am certain he
> got
> >>>>>
> >>> in
> >>>
> >>>>> because he banned my Steamid  (a trivial thing to fix, but with far
> >>>>>
> >>> greater
> >>>
> >>>>> implications).
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