[Dragokas]

Hi,

1) what is a preffered way to unique identify licensed and pirated steam accounts?
2) what is the difference between all of the options below? Some of them deprecated or out of date? Can some of them return null in special circumstances?

	int iSteamId = GetSteamAccountID(client);
	PrintToChat(client, "GetSteamAccountID = %i", iSteamId);
	
	char sId[50];
	GetClientAuthId(client, AuthId_Engine, sId, sizeof(sId));
	PrintToChat(client, "AuthId_Engine = %s", sId);
	
	GetClientAuthId(client, AuthId_Steam2, sId, sizeof(sId));
	PrintToChat(client, "AuthId_Steam2 = %s", sId);
	
	GetClientAuthId(client, AuthId_Steam3, sId, sizeof(sId));
	PrintToChat(client, "AuthId_Steam3 = %s", sId);
	
	GetClientAuthId(client, AuthId_SteamID64, sId, sizeof(sId));
	PrintToChat(client, "AuthId_SteamID64 = %s", sId);

GetSteamAccountID = 4502XXXX AuthId_Engine = STEAM_1:1:2251XXXX AuthId_Steam2 = STEAM_1:1:2251XXXX AuthId_Steam3 = [U:1:4502XXXX] AuthId_SteamID64 = 765611980XXXXXXXX

I found this article about SteamId formats. But not too many words about purpose.

Thanks.

[Ermert1992]

Maybe this forum post helps you:

https://forums.alliedmods.net/archiv.../t-272104.html

[Dragokas]

Thank you, Ermert1992.

And what is actually mean:

https://sm.alliedmods.net/new-api/cl...etClientAuthId

Originally Posted by wiki bool validate Check backend validation status. DO NOT PASS FALSE UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES, You WILL KNOW if you need to use this, MOST WILL NOT.

And what is a default value of "validate" argument? I guess, it's "true".

[Bacardi]

Originally Posted by Dragokas Thank you, Ermert1992. And what is actually mean: https://sm.alliedmods.net/new-api/cl...etClientAuthId And what is a default value of "validate" argument? I guess, it's "true".

PHP Code:

/**
 * Retrieves a client's authentication string (SteamID).
 *
 * @param client        Player index.
 * @param authType        Auth id type and format to use.
 * @param auth            Buffer to store the client's auth id.
 * @param maxlen        Maximum length of string buffer (includes NULL terminator).
 * @param validate        Check backend validation status.
 *                 DO NOT PASS FALSE UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND THE CONSEQUENCES,
 *                    You WILL KNOW if you need to use this, MOST WILL NOT.
 * @return                True on success, false otherwise.
 * @error                If the client is not connected or the index is invalid.
 */
native bool GetClientAuthId(int client, AuthIdType authType, char[] auth, int maxlen, bool validate=true); 


[asherkin]

Originally Posted by Dragokas And what is actually mean:

https://github.com/alliedmodders/sou....cfg#L111-L117

[Dragokas]

What is actually a difference between AuthId_Engine and AuthId_Steam2 ?

Isn't AuthId_Engine more preferred since AuthId_Steam2 can return "STEAM_ID_PENDING" as stated in article?
or it is just an alias if game internally uses same auth method...

https://sm.alliedmods.net/new-api/clients/AuthIdType

Originally Posted by wiki Note that for the Steam2 and Steam3 types, the following ids are also valid values: "STEAM_ID_PENDING" - Authentication is pending. "STEAM_ID_LAN" - Authentication is disabled because of being on a LAN server. "BOT" - The client is a bot.

[asherkin]

AuthId_Engine is the raw string value returned by the engine, it can be anything (most games use either the Steam2 or Steam3 rendered formats, but it can also be one of those special strings).

The other AuthId types are generated by SM from the plain account ID so are guaranteed to be consistent.

[Dragokas]

I see, thanks for an explanation.