On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 12:45:37PM -0500, Jason Gauthier wrote: > > > > Seriously though. It really isn't all that hard for a would > > be cheater to log > > in a character with the Almighty Sword of Slayage give the > > sword to some > > other character, then run a program which would exhaust all your file > > descriptors so when they quit, it wouldn't save their pfile. > > Then they stop the > > program again, log back in, and voom. Instantly they have 2 > > Almighty Swords of > > Slayage. > > Elaborate.. what "program" are they going to run inside a mud that opens > file descriptors?
None. The will open it on their own machine, connect to the MUD (they don't need to log in, just hogging a descriptor at the 'What is your name?' prompt will suffice) and tie up the descriptor. I have a silly little program here that does just that. (Well, really it does it to port 119 since there are certain NNTP servers that seem to fall down and go boom when you do this to them.... and they don't come back. Baaad open servers.)
