[cod] A word of advice

[Mavrick Master]

Do you have the http redirect setup?

If not, may I suggest you set this up and in the off-server http location
only store the mod and not your config files. This should solve your
problem.

Daniel 'mavrick' Lang
www.mavrick.id.au


On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Geoff Goas <gitman at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's correct.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Mavrick Master <mavrick.master at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The client auto-download was used because I presume you are running a mod?
>>
>> Daniel 'mavrick' Lang
>> www.mavrick.id.au
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Hannu Kumpeli <hannu at shadowstyle.nl>wrote:
>>
>>> well after they got the rcon pass they could change all non write
>>> protected
>>>
>>> > But they could only download and view, not edit.correct?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > From: Geoff Goas [mailto:gitman at gmail.com]
>>> > Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 1:03 AM
>>> > To: Call of Duty server admin list.
>>> > Subject: [cod] A word of advice
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > 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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