Hello,
I'm running an L4D server with 4 forks on Debian 7 (64-bit), installed
yesterday via SteamCMD. I think there's a bug in the code for the RCON
password, because I just discovered that it doesn't handle the "%"
character correctly. It apparently gets doubled, so a literal "%" becomes
"%%", a literal "%%" becomes "%%%%", etc.
Passwords without "%" work fine, even if they have other special
characters. I even tried backslash-escaping the "%" but it didn't make a
difference. Here are some examples pasted from the console:
rcon_password mySecretPassword
rcon_password
"rcon_password" = "mySecretPassword" ( def. "" )
- remote console password.
rcon_password my$Secret#Password!
rcon_password
"rcon_password" = "my$Secret#Password!" ( def. "" )
- remote console password.
rcon_password my%Secret#Password!"
rcon_password
"rcon_password" = "my%%Secret#Password!"" ( def. "" )
- remote console password.
rcon_password my%Secret%%Password!
rcon_password
"rcon_password" = "my%%Secret%%%%Password!" ( def. "" )
- remote console password.
rcon_password my\%Secret#Password!
rcon_password
"rcon_password" = "my\%%Secret#Password!" ( def. "" )
- remote console password.
When I enter the "rcon_password" commands on the forked server's
netconsole, I get the output above. However, on the real console of the
main server, I see the correct values:
#01:"rcon_password" = "mySecretPassword"
#01: ( def. "" )
#01:"rcon_password" = "my$Secret#Password!"
#01: ( def. "" )
#01:"rcon_password" = "my%Secret#Password!""
#01: ( def. "" )
#01:"rcon_password" = "my%Secret%%Password!"
#01: ( def. "" )
#01:"rcon_password" = "my\%Secret#Password!"
#01: ( def. "" )
Regardless of password I use (with or without the doubled "%"), I can't
connect to the server via RCON if the password contains this character.
I'm pretty sure this is a recent change, because my old RCON password had
the "%" in it and it worked fine. Also, this doesn't seem to happen on any
of my servers for other games.
- Dave
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