Rcon command without Rcon. Interesting.

[BeerBastard]

Ok we had a griefer come into the game.  And set us past stage 3, meaning nothing can be built, no one can evolve and it says you have no eggs. I set us back after kicking the known griefer.

I thought the only way to do this is with rcon g_humanstage and g_alienstage
Which require you to know rcon password.  

How do you do this without rcon? We just changed our rcon password, and it happened again.  If its a bug, is there a fix? It happened again when the griefer came back the 2nd time.

[dodo1122]

maybe he hax00r'd to the machine running your server and just looked in server.cfg?



dodo

[DoorKnob]

i've also had this happen, he would come in, change all the server setttings thrn i'd kick him, but before i know that he was doing it, i was going crazy cause i'm the only with rcon, but he told me it was him and told me he uses leeches to hax my server.... Perm ban

[Odin]

Maybe he knew the password?

[Caveman]

Most server I've seen this happening on do offer maps via a webserver and link their /base in order to save some time in setting up, not realizing that they give read-access to their confs...

[vcxzet]

type
/class level4
/name blah

[DASPRiD]

Most server I've seen this happening on do offer maps via a webserver and link their /base in order to save some time in setting up, not realizing that they give read-access to their confs...

I did nearly the same. It's quite simple:

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#Tremulous map download
<VirtualHost>
 ServerName tremulous.servers.dasprids.de
 DocumentRoot /srv/www/tremulous/

 AliasMatch ^/(.*)\.pk3$ /usr/local/games/tremulous/$1.pk3

 <directory>
   Allow from all
 </directory>

 <directory>
   Allow from all

   Options +Indexes
 </directory>
</VirtualHost>


-edit-
Gnaa, damn forum, here's the right paste:
http://pastebin.us/15387

[BeerBastard]

We used the mg mappack so we linked that from our forums, We didnt link our server base folder.

[beerbitch]

i've also had this happen, he would come in, change all the server setttings thrn i'd kick him, but before i know that he was doing it, i was going crazy cause i'm the only with rcon, but he told me it was him and told me he uses leeches to hax my server.... Perm ban

What do you mean by "leeches" ?? You mean the naruto downloaders that got the gnaa fake fansub ? Maybe they were trojaned, but I don't see how a denial of service attack on a q3 based engine server gives them rcon........


I want to know how somebody without rcon password, and without access to the files on the server can bump aliens to s4.