[bf1942] PB kicks for "Inadequate O/S Privileges"

[Lee Latham]

Yes this is madness.  It's like requiring to run as root on unix.  Very, 
very sloppy.  ParTICularly for a GAME.

At 03:25 PM 6/4/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>and how many internet cafes/game shops will accept and use  this
>workaround?
>
>On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Jorrit Schippers wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > The faq page has a solution for this, but nonetheless I share your opinion
> > ...
> >
> >
> > Jorrit
> >
> > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > > Van: AIX Gaming [mailto:webmaster at aixgaming.com]
> > > Verzonden: donderdag 3 juni 2004 15:25
> > > Aan: bf1942 at icculus.org
> > > Onderwerp: Re: [bf1942] PB kicks for "Inadequate O/S Privileges"
> > >
> > > Ok, this is completely absurd.  So now any parent that
> > > doesn't want their kids having full run of their machine is
> > > out of luck.  This also means that anyone playing from work
> > > from a corporate computer is also out of luck, as most user
> > > machines at any reasonable sized company doesn't have admin
> > > rights to their machines.
> > >
> > > "starting with this version 1.084, the PB Client now requires
> > > the game to be run as the administrator user or equivalent
> > > under Windows XP/2K"
> > >
> > > > I know why
> > > > http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=support-bfv.php
> > > >
> > > > check this out, quite a big update!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- AIX Gaming <webmaster at aixgaming.com> wrote:
> > > >> We also had a massive number of PB kicks today.  It was
> > > hard to keep
> > > >> anyone on any of our several servers, including myself and
> > > the other
> > > >> admins.  It was tragic to see 40 some odd players suddenly
> > > dropped to
> > > >> 6 or
> > > >> 7 within a 5 minute span.  Restarting the servers didn't
> > > help like it
> > > >> normally has in the past.  The one we were getting
> > > >> was:
> > > >>
> > > >> VIOLATION (COMFAIL) #131: Playername (slot #10) PB Client Not
> > > >> Responding
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> > Just today I've started seeing loads of people
> > > >> being kicked by PB with
> > > >> > this message:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > "RESTRICTION: Inadequate O/S Privileges"
> > > >> >
> > > >> > It's literally never happened before today. So
> > > >> far, 10 times today. A
> > > >> > quick search of the evenbalance website didn't
> > > >> reveal what this means.
> > > >> > Is anyone else seeing this? (you can see by
> > > >> grepping the files in
> > > >> > pb/svlogs). Anyone know what it means?
> > > >> >
> > > >> > James
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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Lee M. Latham
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