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
