Clients not staying banned, help

Faust_mateo · **Author**

Hello all, I am having a issue with some player's being able to join our DOD:S even though they are properly on the banned_user.txt . The said player was identified then through admin menu banned "permanently" again after which the player immediately rejoined with the same SteamID. This happened twice in a row with the same player.

Action taken:

Checked banned_user.txt (Correct)
Restarted server
Tested Banning process with another account (worked)

Does anyone have any idea's , Is this maybe a glitch of some sort's or a client manipulations? (Player is not "above" that sort of thing)

Lebson506th · 05-06-2009 , 12:21 Re: Clients not staying banned, help

You need to have "exec banned_user.cfg" in your server.cfg

Faust_mateo · 05-06-2009 , 12:31 Re: Clients not staying banned, help

Yup it's already there. Other players have not been able to join again , I haven't figured out why this specific player can.

gevo · 05-06-2009 , 13:28 Re: Clients not staying banned, help

Maybe you banned him by IP and he has a dynamic IP.

Faust_mateo · 05-06-2009 , 14:02 Re: Clients not staying banned, help

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Originally Posted by gevo

Maybe you banned him by IP and he has a dynamic IP.

That is a possibility but in this case the players SteamID was already in the banned_user.cfg. It's really odd.

1337 h4x0r · 05-17-2009 , 16:44 Re: Clients not staying banned, help

maybe he have a "cafe" account (they use them on internet cafes with Steam) if he had 1 of these so will he get new steam id every time he lauch a steam game xD

try ip ban him

Noobotron · 06-01-2009 , 05:24 Re: Clients not staying banned, help

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1337 h4x0r

maybe he have a "cafe" account (they use them on internet cafes with Steam) if he had 1 of these so will he get new steam id every time he lauch a steam game xD

try ip ban him

heh, now that's some advantage for hackers/cheaters, eh?

rautamiekka · 06-03-2009 , 05:46 Re: Clients not staying banned, help

banned_user.cfg needs "777" permissions to function right. The mentioned permissions means READ,WRITE,EXECUTE for OWNER,GROUP,PUBLIC; full permissions for all. With an FTP Client you can tell it to set them. If you're on *NIX, cd to the folder and execute chmod 777 banned_user.cfg and you're done

ColdnessCalms · 06-08-2009 , 22:07 Re: Clients not staying banned, help

I saw a metamod plugin that protects against an exploit that clients can take advantage of by joining a game without their steam id being validated, allowing them to stick around in the server for as long as they want. You might want to take a look at that, although since it sounds like you banned his/her IP as well this sounds like the likely problem

Sorry if I didn't help :S