[cod] Why the 0 for GUID ...Was(RE: [cod] Administration Tool)

[John Kennington]

Ok. Here is another good one.  Two people, two different IP addresses.
They don't know each other, yet have the SAME GUID.  It happened on our
server Feb 10.  Anyone have any ideas on how to prevent that (suspecting
the answer is "we have fixed it in the next patch and we have no idea
when it will be released).

John Kennington
Assistant Director - Operations
BuzzCard Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
350 Ferst Dr. NW
Houston Bookstore Mall
Atlanta, GA  30332
404-385-2961
678-283-3385 Cell
404-894-2049 FAX
http://www.buzzcard.gatech.edu/
BuzzCard FAQs:  http://www.buzzcard.gatech.edu/faqs/index.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: orr [mailto:orr at cadetmail.uscga.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 8:07 PM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: RE: [cod] Why the 0 for GUID ...Was(RE: [cod] Administration
Tool)

sweet, no way!! brian you da man.  even if you werent the actual
programmer
that fixed it, you're still the man for lettin us all know.  thx!

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Kuhn [mailto:bryan at infinityward.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 7:24 PM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [cod] Why the 0 for GUID ...Was(RE: [cod] Administration
Tool)


It's already fixed and will be in the next patch, whenever that is.

Thursday, February 12, 2004, 4:03:36 PM, you wrote:
> The GUID being zero (0) is a known bug in the 1.2 patch.  The problem
has
> been addressed to infinity ward.  In response to an inquiry as to
whether
or
> not IW knew about it, V-Man (at www.udpviper.com) said...
>>"Actually, it's been posted several times. Initially, they thought it
was
> limited to cracked copies of the game. But it has been reported by
enough
legit    >>users that there's no way that's the case."

> complain to IW; maybe they'll bust out a fix quicker if you do =?

> -tim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [TRT]TazAnimal!{*} [mailto:tazanimal at rifleteam.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:58 PM
> To: cod at icculus.org
> Subject: [cod] Why the 0 for GUID ...Was(RE: [cod] Administration
Tool)


> All:
>   What makes it (the GUID) show up as zero?
> I have only seen this a couple of times and each time it was on a guy
I
was
> about to ban
> because he was either cheating, or just had a bad attitude.  So...
> naturally, I thought I might
> build it into my mod that it checks for a 0 and just kicks them, but I
> thought I had better
> find out why it does that first.... Anyone know?

> [TRT]TazAnimal{*}
> Brett Stinson
> TazAnimal at rifleteam.com <mailto:TazAnimal at rifleteam.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy van Doorn [mailto:jeremy at carcharias.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 1:51 PM
> To: cod at icculus.org
> Subject: [cod] Administration Tool


> --snip--
> P.s. I know the UDPB-COD Bot does this, but that bot is currently not
> working for me as it uses GUID's to distinguish between who is an
> "Admin" and who is not. I and some of my Clanmembers always have GUID
0
> (as does half of the other users on my server) and therefor everyone
> with that GUID has admin-rights.
> So I hope you see why that is currently not an option :(