Hi,

we have a problem in our server sometimes.
Some people know a trick to unban themself (they crash the server as well)

How do they do this and how can we prevent this?

Thanks

Lenny

They shouldn't be able to unban themselves unless they know an admin password or are getting an admin to do it for them.

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txs for your reply

I was thinking the same thing, so this confirms my asumbtion.

But I needed to be sure about something.
Thay crash the server after they are banned, so maybe the last banned persons are not saved that way?

It's just an asumbtion, but nice to know for sure.

KR

Lenny

If they have the rcon password. they are able to remotely control your server. (rcon_addrress then rcon_password) they may need to "rcon quit" to unban themselves. I suggest changing the password

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on some servers still you can type 'say' in console and crash it. dunno what update stops that though.

I think that's our problem.

after we ban these persons they or someone crash the server and they are unbanned.

We found out are perm banlist was blanc after these crashes, so we think that's the problem.

We need to instal someting to prevent the crashes, but we don't know what, beause they keep on crashing the server

test it on your server - go in and just type say in console to see what happens.

Don't use the standard ban function for CS

Use an admin plugin such as SourceMod to ban them.

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You need to include writeip and writeid in your Server.cfg to make bans stick after a server crash or reboot. Simply ban them and then change the map or ban them and type rcon exec server.cfg and they will remain banned.

As for the crashing....There are a ton of ways to crash a server for CSS, but only a few of these ways can be accomplished outside of the server. One is known as the DOS where the server is practically pinged to death. There is also another that utilizes spamming rcon_password this gets the user temp banned but it also crashes the server there is a plugin for SM that fixes this. There is also a plugin called DOSattackfix v2 that stops DOS'ing. If you have mani you have to be aware of mani spam commands like timeleft and nextmap this can cause clients to overflow and everyone disconnects. Currently there are still several ways to crash a server and not enough fixes be weary of EStools and mani mod these have many exploits.

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