[cod] A word of advice

Geoff Goas gitman at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 02:03:21 EST 2009


This may not be news to some, but I just first hand experience with it, so I
think I should share....

Someone just gained access to the RCON password for my CoD2 server.
Apparently, they were able to use the client auto-download functionality to
download my server configuration, which I (stupidly) had named "server.cfg".

So a word to the wise - name your server config in such a way that nobody
can guess what it is. This is a Q3 engine bug, so the whole series is
affected.
-- 
Geoff Goas
Network Engineer
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