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Players Stealing Admin?

Postby Gynophobia » Tue Apr 28, 2015 5:46 am

Hello,

I'm hosting my own dedicated Battlefront II server, and someone has been able to send chat messages impersonating me then shutting down the server.

Does anyone know how to prevent this? I'm not sure how it's being done either.

Thanks for any help.
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Re: Players Stealing Admin?

Postby haasd0gg » Wed Apr 29, 2015 1:40 am

Check your chat logs. Its "fake chat". You will see a player type something then a line under their name that says "Admin: blahblahblah".
The way to stop it is to ban the offender(s).
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Re: Players Stealing Admin?

Postby [NH]Shadow » Wed Apr 29, 2015 3:39 am

haasd0gg wrote:Check your chat logs. Its "fake chat". You will see a player type something then a line under their name that says "Admin: blahblahblah".
The way to stop it is to ban the offender(s).

^ Probably this, or also: maybe someone has guessed your in-game admin password? If so, that would allow them to a. chat as admin b. shut down the server. On RM, make sure that the in-game admin password is not the default password (default admin password is "123456" for SWBF2).
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Re: Players Stealing Admin?

Postby Bryant » Wed Apr 29, 2015 4:33 am

Gynophobia wrote:Hello,

I'm hosting my own dedicated Battlefront II server, and someone has been able to send chat messages impersonating me then shutting down the server.

Does anyone know how to prevent this? I'm not sure how it's being done either.

Thanks for any help.


Are you running my patch? It should work for gameranger, but I can't remember if I made one for gamemaster or not.

Edit: In all likelihood, it is the "fake chat" and/or the bad password as the others said. However, I do have a patch that should prevent most actual hacking.

For gamemaster: http://globalwf.com/site/resources.php?r=398&c=22&s=-1#h398
For gameranger: http://swgohome.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6016
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Re: Players Stealing Admin?

Postby Gynophobia » Sat May 02, 2015 8:31 pm

Bryant wrote:
Gynophobia wrote:Hello,

I'm hosting my own dedicated Battlefront II server, and someone has been able to send chat messages impersonating me then shutting down the server.

Does anyone know how to prevent this? I'm not sure how it's being done either.

Thanks for any help.


Are you running my patch? It should work for gameranger, but I can't remember if I made one for gamemaster or not.

Edit: In all likelihood, it is the "fake chat" and/or the bad password as the others said. However, I do have a patch that should prevent most actual hacking.

For gamemaster: http://globalwf.com/site/resources.php?r=398&c=22&s=-1#h398
For gameranger: http://swgohome.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6016


Yeah, I'm using your patch and it seems to have stopped that now. Thanks man.

Now for some reason commands like !nextmap or !ban don't work though.. Gotta figure this out.
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