[bl4nk]

L4D seems very finicky with stripping the cheat flag from commands. I was fooling with it earlier tonight, and on one map, I could strip the cheat flag from the "give" command, but not the "z_spawn" command, and on the next, I could strip it from the "z_spawn" command, but not the "give" command (this was in-between server restarts, so it wasn't something where the flag was already stripped).

[msleeper]

Admittedly I haven't looked at the plugin's source, but perhaps the cheat flag needs to be stripped right before being ran for it to work in L4D?

[Antithasys]

Originally Posted by bl4nk L4D seems very finicky with stripping the cheat flag from commands. I was fooling with it earlier tonight, and on one map, I could strip the cheat flag from the "give" command, but not the "z_spawn" command, and on the next, I could strip it from the "z_spawn" command, but not the "give" command (this was in-between server restarts, so it wasn't something where the flag was already stripped).

I tried to implement this code with a single command for a simple plugin as well. It seemd that it only worked about half the time and I was unsure why. I would have to say as well that l4d seems very pickly about what command can be run when.

[recon0]

The concept of this plugin seems to me fundamentally wrong to me.

Cheating admins? That's just wrong. Really wrong.

[Shiraishi]

The reason why it doesn't work for all the cvars is because it only focuses on cvars that are "commands" is there a way to change that though?

[bl4nk]

For the record, cvars and commands are not the same thing. A command is something that directly runs a function. A cvar is a console variable, which only does something when it's value is queried. They're two very different things, and functions that alter flags and such for one of them, will most likely not work for the other.

[Shiraishi]

Haha i know, but i'm just wondering if sv_cheats could be omitted, what i think is that for that to happen =\ you may need to strip each cvar thats considered a cheat.... and i think that will take ages =.=;; but i'm trying to see if the title "cheats" for those cvars could be omitted so they could run normally o-o;

[devicenull]

Originally Posted by Shiraishi Haha i know, but i'm just wondering if sv_cheats could be omitted, what i think is that for that to happen =\ you may need to strip each cvar thats considered a cheat.... and i think that will take ages =.=;; but i'm trying to see if the title "cheats" for those cvars could be omitted so they could run normally o-o;

It's possible (and fairly trivial) to remove the cheat flag from cvars. The same code in this plugin that removes it from commands can be applied to cvars directly. The problem with this is there is no *simple* way of only allowing admins to execute them. The best way around this would be a whitelist of cvars to remove the cheat flag from. At the moment I don't have the ability to write/test this plugin, so it's not something I can do.

@L4D issues: I'll give this a test when I get back to my real computer. I'm not sure that "give all" is valid though, try something like "give smg"

@bl4nk: I suspect that L4D might be doing something stupid, like having some commands explicitly check for sv_cheats, rather then relying on FCVAR_CHEAT to do the checking for them. This is definitely something that I can see being done, but that doesn't explain why it only works sometimes.

[bl4nk]

Originally Posted by devicenull @bl4nk: I suspect that L4D might be doing something stupid, like having some commands explicitly check for sv_cheats, rather then relying on FCVAR_CHEAT to do the checking for them. This is definitely something that I can see being done, but that doesn't explain why it only works sometimes.

I thought that as well, so I implemented a check to see if the plugin could even find the cvar/cmd, and it was failing to do so.

[Shiraishi]

The plugin currently restricts any user other than the admin and console from using any cheats at all, this also includes cvars. Too bad I'm not that great with editing plugins, but i was wondering if you could try to apply the cheat flag removal to the cvars just like you did with the commands. The fact that you created a cvar (sm_admin_cheats_level) I think was enough to restrict it to the admin/console.