final last-day arrangements for the 4th tronic ladle!

Ricochet · Post by **Ricochet** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 3:34 pm

yea sounds good. i mean, i wasnt suggesting that z-man gave out the admin pass xD

meriton · Post by **meriton** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:50 pm

Can't we ask admins of competition servers to hop in briefly at the beginning and end of a competitive game to set the server description and maxplayers accordingly? (Of course, for that we'd need to know who the server admin is and how to reach him.)

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 7:14 pm

Unfortunately, setting TALK_TO_MASTER to 0 does not remove a server from the master list, so that won't stop unwanted players from joining. A protocol change would be required for that, the polling client/master would need to set a flag that a poll is for the master server list. A special SERVER_SECRET setting could be added to cloak a server from all queries, which would also make it invisible from the LAN browser. Of course, legitimate late-comers would also be effectively locked out by that, unless they know how to custom connect.

I was originally planning to drop by for some administration, but couldn't make it, sorry.

DDMJ · Post by **DDMJ** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 8:06 pm

The best way to block the server out is to set TEAM_MAX_PLAYERS to what ever number of players are going to play on each team. Therefore, no one could interupt the game.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:35 pm

Yeah, that's what I do when I'm actually there to administer a match, it's quite painless and fun when a Camping Hippie joins

However, making this setting available as a chat-triggerable thing would be vastly more abusable than hiding the server from the master list, so it's not an option for the server-admin-is-on-vacation problem.

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:23 pm

Another way would be to abuse the /login command: Don't set an ADMIN_PASS, but if someone tries to log in there'll be a log message containing the password the person tried to use.
This could be used by a script which reads the log, then accept commands in this form:

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/login <secretpass> maxplayers 7

Where <secretpass> is a password given to some trusted people or/and teamcaptains. As the commands one can execute would be limited it wouldn't be a security hole even if the password became public.

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:27 pm

How about we integrate XMPP, LAMP, SOAP, and XML-PRC so we can have a complete solution? Probably only take 5 minutes....

wrtlprnft · Post by **wrtlprnft** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 9:54 pm

Don't forget to integrate MediaWiki, SVN, python, ruby, javascript, SVG and HTML support too. Then we can have the ultimate solution

Ricochet · Post by **Ricochet** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 12:21 am

what about VB, jade, pascal, and loads of other pointless crap? xD