Armagetron Dedicated Authentication

[Arduino]

Thanks. That really helps. Ill post back here if I get it working. Can I also downgrade the server to an earlier version of armagetronad-dedicated that has authentication?

[Z-Man]

No, it's the build type that has authentication disabled. You need to switch from .deb to either .package or building from source.

[Arduino]

Ok. Ill try and compile it from source. Will fututre builds of the .deb package have authentication?

[Z-Man]

I'd say so. All the other builds have it, and while it's not enabled by default in the source (I'm conservative with new features), that's just inconsistent.

[Arduino]

Cool. I compile the server from source and then just wait for the next release of armagetron to come out.

[Discosuperstar]

Why not download the .package one from the arma site? It's what I used and it worked fine.

[scene]

Why not download the .package one from the arma site? It's what I used and it worked fine.

Well he sorta has a chain of topics going here, one of them about respawning which requires sty+ct

[Arduino]

I have another thread about respawning. The problem is that the Ubuntu Server has no GUI installed so I have to do everything terminal based. If you could give me instructions on how to install the .package package in the terminal, that would be great.

[Z-Man]

The .package is just a shell script. Execute it. If you don't have the autopackage tools installed yet, it will do so. If you have, it will tell you what you need to do instead.

[Arduino]

Cool. Thank you

[Arduino]

Wait, where do I find the .package package. I am not finding it on the downloads page on the main site. Also, it says

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bash ./armagetronad(-dedicated)-<VERSION>.<SYSTEM>.package -t

What do I put for the version and system?

[Discosuperstar]

It's right in the downloads, under "Dedicated server". But it has a typo (someone should fix that). Direct link here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/armaget ... e/download
Save that file somewhere either with a web browser or with wget if you're running the server w/o a gui. (sounds like you are though). Then just run the file from the terminal (you might need to 'chmod +x' it, I don't remember off the top of my head). It'll ask you for the root password automatically if you didn't sudo it I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong), and then install automatically.
It installs itself as a service, but can also be run directly if you want to interact with it's console.

That's all that comes to mind. I just started playing with the server myself, and I run a different distro so I can't give you any ubuntu specific details.

[Arduino]

What command do I use to start the script?

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./armagetronad-0.2.8.3.1.i486-generic-linux-gnu.package

I tried that but isn't working for me.

[Discosuperstar]

You probably have to give it executable permissions:

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chmod +x armagetronad-0.2.8.3.1.i486-generic-linux-gnu.package
./armagetronad-0.2.8.3.1.i486-generic-linux-gnu.package

should do it.

[Arduino]

I figured out that I downloaded the wrong .package package (the game instead of the server). I downloaded the server version and got it working. Thank you all so much. Taco High Rubber is now up and running with the authentication working.