Server Password Didn't Work

Tue Feb 1 15:00:44 EST 2005

Hi,
Last Friday I was hositng a large tournament on my server.
It is the latest linux dedicated running on RH 7.3 (ARRG H! i know, old)

Well... Suprise suprise the password was totally ignored.
In gamespy and the server list is showed password protected, but it 
never prompted for pwds.. .So after starting 40 minutes late we decided 
to ban people who joined and to go with it.

Is this a problem with the new static linked binaries that I have to run 
because my OS is old and crufty?