I hope you understand that even if VALVe blocked plugin_load from none
relative directories, you could make a plugin which loads plugins from
absolute paths anyway.

tl;dr: fix your permissions.

Thanks,
 - Saul.


2011/1/21 Andre Müller <gbs.dead...@googlemail.com>

> You all think it's ok, when the server can load plugins from anywhere.
> Do you need this? Tell me why.
>
> In example one provider have one user for all gameservers on a host.
> Every customer gets chrooted FTP-Access (virtual users) to his own
> serverdirectory. So he/she can't access to the other directories. I
> know you like it more complex and want for everey gameserver his own
> user. Nice, safty first.
> Then is the next problem to get the screen for an different user to
> his gameserver for debuging. Maybe sourcemod hangs or something else.
>
> When you like hacks, you can execute as root:
>
> chmod 666 `tty`; su -c "screen -r css_27015" customer123
>
> A little nice hack. I know you can use shared screen sessions. You
> like more complexity.
>
> Third example: You are using Teklab and your customer have two
> gameservers. So the customer can access to his two gameservers, when
> they are on the same host. In this situation the customer can load
> plugins from his second gameserver. There are many mini hosters who
> uses this.
>
> You really want to tell me, that you ever have loaded Plugins from
> outside the serverdirectory?
> plugin_load "/home/plugins/zBlock/zblock"
> I don't have tested it until yet, where the server after this writes
> the logfiles for zblock. Maybe in your addons-directory or outside in
> /home/plugins/zBlock/zb_logs/?
>
> I think its easier and safer to use for this way symlinks. The safest
> way is, to block only loading plugins, which aren't located in servers
> directory, but don't break the support for symlinks ;-)
>
> 2011/1/21 Marco Padovan <evolutioncr...@gmail.com>:
> > Agree to this :|
> >
> > Why can a single user access to another customer dir?
> > I can understand maybe to /tmp or things like that... but another
> customer
> > dir?? :/
> >
> > Il 21/01/2011 09:40, Marcel ha scritto:
> >>
> >> If the provider really allows access to other customer directories he
> >> should stop renting servers and do his homework first.
> >> This is really no job for Valve.
> >>
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