VAC Status Checker (v.2.5.0 8/27/19)
 

VAC Status Checker

This plugin checks for VAC, game, Steam Community, and trade bans on the accounts of connecting clients and takes the desired action. Useful for admins who want to block access to people for bad behavior outside the server.

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Requirements

• One of the below extensions:
  • SteamWorks
  • SteamTools
  • Socket
• A Steam Web API key obtained from https://steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey
• SourceMod 1.7+

Installation

1. Download vacbans-x.x.x.zip
2. Extract to addons/sourcemod
3. Set sm_vacbans_apikey to your Steam Web API key

Console Variables



Console Commands

• sm_vacbans_reset - Clears the cache database. Run from server console or client with sm_rcon access.
• sm_vacbans_whitelist <add|remove|clear> [SteamID] - Run from the server console or client with sm_rcon access to control the whitelist:
  • add <SteamID> - adds a SteamID for the plugin to ignore
  • remove <SteamID> - removes a SteamID from the whitelist
  • clear - removes all SteamIDs from the whitelist
• sm_vacbans_list - Lists the bans of connected clients. Admins with access to this also see the connect messages when sm_vacbans_action is 2.

Override Commands

• sm_vacbans_immunity - Users with access to this command will not be checked for bans (defaults to RCON access)

Notes

• All account data comes from the Steam Web API.
• This works with SourceBans.
• Data is logged to sourcemod/logs/vacbans.log.

Credits

• voogru - finding the algorithm for converting SteamIDs
• berni & StrontiumDog - the function that converts SteamIDs
• Cripix - French translation
• Dreizehnt - Russian translation

Re: VAC Status Checker
 

Here's a german Version:

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The problem with this is, there are some odd half-vac bans out there, some old false positives thanks to early versions of x-fire, and a number of other oddities. I have a friend who didn't hack, but he used x-fire, now he's vac banned on all non-source servers that are VAC enabled (IE HL1 based servers). But he can play on source. Ultimately though, it's a nice plugin.

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Valve reversed these bans, just like they did for HLSS and Wine.

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I wish that were the case for my friend, they never reversed him. And he did contact support. Their immediate response: "VAC IS NEVER WRONG" (in all caps just like that)

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Thought I love what you wrote this plugin can be dangerous as it wasnt supposed to be doing this across engines. If people do something wrong in one engine it affects all games under that engine and not the others. I personally think putting this on servers would be a bad idea.

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Here comes the spanish translation ;)

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I don't see why. Some server admins would prefer not to separate hackers based on engine. To them, a hacker is a hacker.

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thats why we have steambans.com :)

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so if set to "2" it only logs players that have a prior cheat infraction?

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Yes, sm_vacbans_action "2" will only write to vacbans.log when a VAC banned player joins.

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People with delayed VAC bans arent always banned from playing on VAC servers yet, the other day someone with the VAC ban on their community profile played on my VAC secured server. This plugin could fill that gap but I would only want it to be source engine bans, not the old engine.

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If it says they are banned on their community profile, then the ban is in effect.

If you see "banned" and they are still playing on your server, they were banned from a different engine.

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This guy had the VAC ban ? on his community and was hacking on my server. :/

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Then he will be VAC banned for that soon too.

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Here's the french version

"Phrases"
{
"Kicked"
{
"en" "You were kicked due to a previous VAC violation."
"de" "Du wurdest aufgrund einer früheren VAC Verletzung gekickt."
"es" "Has sido kickeado debido a una violación de VAC anterior."
"fr" "Vous avez été kické par le VAC pour une triche antérieure."
}
"Banned"
{
"en" "You have been banned due to a previous VAC violation."
"de" "Du wurdest aufgrund einer früheren VAC Verletzung gebannt."
"es" "Has sido baneado debido a una violación de VAC anterior."
"fr" "Vous avez été banni par le VAC pour une triche antérieure."
}
"Banned_Server"
{
"#format" "{1:s}"
"en" "{1} banned due to a previous VAC violation."
"de" "{1} aufgrund einer früheren VAC Verletzung gebannt."
"es" "{1} baneado debido a una violación de VAC anterior."
"fr" "{1} Kické pour une violation antérieure du VAC."
}
}

Thanks for your plugin

Re: VAC Status Checker
 

If any Linux users are experiencing frequent crashing, try this version of Socket: http://forums.alliedmods.net/showpos...3&postcount=76

It fixes a memory leak and some other issues.

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Here's the danish translation:

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How do you know what engine someone is banned on? HLstatsX is showing VAC bans that are able to play on my server and even show in their community, nothing has stopped them from playing.

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if your server is vac secured and their steam page shows avac ban on record then its not the engine your server is on example: a kid gets vac banned on counterstrike, he can still play on vac secured servers on Counterstrike:Source since its a different game engine., i have no clue where HLstatsX gets their info, i use their stats and it seems to me anyone with admin rights can label anyone in their HLstatsX a cheater, Theres no way HLstatsX gets its info from valve so dont go by that.

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If they can play on your VAC secured server, they are not banned.

That's how you can tell.

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HLstatsx does get their info from the same database this does. Its just if you have a cheater on your server that you dont want people to see in the players list then you can mark them as cheaters. I dont get how delayed bans work with this, are they in the database yet or are they not, so confusing.

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For example, this guy is banned on hlstatsx but not on the vacbanned site or on community. http://topnotch.hlstatsx.com/?mode=p...o&player=56716
I didnt mark anyone cheater so either they are wrong or he is on a delayed ban.

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if a player joins and get kicked for reason "vac banned", then HLX sets the players status to "banned". thats where HLX gets its information.

hlx does NOT use the steam community profile

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Or if a server owner forges a log line to the HLX server saying the player is vac banned. Probably one reason there are false positives like that on their list.

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of cause every admin is able to manipulate the database at his pleasure.
but it is NOT done by hlstats itself.

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Actually it was a false positive, an error, a bug on hlstatsx part. Unbanned them.

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ya hlstatsx is not a gd source of banned cheaters, any admin can lable a player a cheater on hlstatsx

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Hi StevoTVR.,

First thing I want to say is great plugin, I totally support this idea not so much to ban VACed players from all engines, but because this plugin will stop VAC banned accounts being used on servers running other Anti-cheats that require VAC to be disabled.

I've put the plugin on my VAC enabled server today and when I joined there were no issues, but when another player joined the server crashed. I restarted the server and the same thing happened again. I was running it on CS:S Linux server with 1.1.0.2422 version of SM, I have the version of sockets from post #83 which I had from running KAC. The server was not experiencing any crashes before I put the plugin on and now that I have removed the plugin the server is running with no crashes. The plugin showed as loaded when I ran a sm plugins list while it was on the server and there isn't anything in the error logs. I had the plugin set to log only and kept the 30 day cache time.

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Yeah it seems like there is a problem with the Sockets extension on Linux. Plugins that create one socket work fine, but creating one or two per player seems to cause problems. So this probably won't work for Linux servers until a stable version of Sockets.:|

Re: VAC Status Checker
 

Thanks! With this plugin, VAC, KAC and Steambans most cheaters are stopped at the gate!

But I have a concert, how does VACSC deal with errors? If the steam community went offline for some reason then I don’t want my servers to stop working. So, if it doesn’t get a response, does it then just let anyone in?

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Yeah, if the site is down or the status can't be found for some reason, nothing will happen. All players will get in unless they are in the local DB marked as banned.

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Great, thanks. :)

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Im installed this one yesterday and today i got an error


Edit: Seems like i got an answer in the sockets thread.

10060 = connection timed out

Edit2:

Would it not be better if banlog would be in it´s own file instead in the sourcemod/logs fles


Also a new question: where is the ban logged? Have choosen it to log but first i looked wrong and got one dude banned. I want to remove that temp (30 day ban)

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I'm not able to download the plugin. I get this error message:
Plugin failed to compile! Please try contacting the author.

THX
Toxic4u

Re: VAC Status Checker
 

It's possible that the Steam Community was down at the time and caused the timeout. Does it work now?

To answer your other question, data is logged to sourcemod/logs/vacbans.log.

It requires a 3rd party extension, so the web compiler won't work. Download the attached smx file, or compile the source manually.

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?

I don't get, what you are talking about?
I just want to D/L the plugin. I don't know what you mean with "compile"!

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I got some errors and sometimes crashes with SM dev. I don't know how it affect the server or plugin but I've had two crashes soon after the errors and the last one did not even close. Thanks!

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I see it's L4D. Does it happen to be a forked Linux server?