[mohaa] server hijacking

[Bradley Caricofe]

If this is true then basically all MOHAA servers are rendered completely
worthless to the people running them.  I have a friend who runs a very busy
MOH server, he recently put it on permanent passwd protection to stop the
cheaters and the crackers from getting in.  Sad...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaun Green [mailto:greensha at rogers.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:29 PM
> To: mohaa at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [mohaa] server hijacking
>
>
> Apparently there is a simple client side command that allows the
> restarting
> of maps.   The experience I had today just really ticked me off.  3 or 4
> peeps doing it and I had lost complete rcon control. (they never had rcon
> control just the constant restarting seemed to jam the whole
> thing up)  Even
> ssh to the main console on the server was useless. Someone on mohadmin.com
> has a made a fix.  He hasnt posted it yet because anyone could download it
> and get the new command. (he needs some guidance on hiding the
> command)  The
> win32 user made fix has been encoded to disguise the command.
> Lets hope we
> can get this fixed.
>
> CDN
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Salsich, Luke" <LJS at protectorgroup.com>
> To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 4:43 PM
> Subject: RE: [mohaa] server hijacking
>
>
> What they do is bind a series of keys to certain actions (like chat) and
> this causes errors in the game that repeat endlessly -  This is
> what causes
> the lag and usually a game crash. I haven't worked on finding a way to
> prevent it as they only did this once to my servers.
>
> Luke
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Quon [mailto:anthonyquon at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 3:56 PM
> To: mohaa at icculus.org
> Subject: Re: [mohaa] server hijacking
>
>
>
> Yep there are 'hacking' clans that will come around and will initially
> wallhack/aimbot a server to get a rise out of the server admins. Once the
> admins try and kick these users, they will come back with taughts and msg
> floods with their group website and etc and will eventually crash the
> server. From what I hear, there are 10+ ways of crashing or restarting a
> server...I'm not sure if they are just exagerating..but even if
> there aren't
> 10+ ways..there is at least one way since they are able to do it.
> I couldn't
> find any traces in any log files since I don't normally turn logs
> up because
> of the performance hit it causes....if anyone has any information, that
> would be great.
>
>
> Also, in regards to the map changes and etc in the initial post...are you
> sure you disabled voting? This is definitely one way where they can vote
> their way into changing a map. I have turned off voting for all my servers
> since it's kinda useless anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> ANthony
>
>
> >From: <MOH at digitalnines.com>
> >Reply-To: mohaa at icculus.org
> >To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
> >Subject: Re: [mohaa] server hijacking
> >Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 12:44:39 -0400
> >
> >I've also had players come in crashing some of our clients servers.  They
> >spam some msg's and crash the servers and leave.  Last time we got an ip
> >and ipchained him from the server.
> >They seem to be spamming msg's (such as their site) or what not.  It
> >scrolls down and then the server crashes.
> >Any ideas ?
> >
> >   ----- Original Message -----
> >   From: Shaun Green
> >   To: mohaa at icculus.org
> >   Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 7:11 AM
> >   Subject: [mohaa] server hijacking
> >
> >
> >   It has come to my attention that players on the server can continually
> >reload the map at will.  There is a command in the gamex86.dll that will
> >allow anyplayer to restart the map. [without rcon]  As us linux admins do
> >no use the gamex86.dll this needs patched on the linux ver.  A
> fix has been
> >made for Microshaft servers.  Please someone help as I had 3 different
> >people continually starting the map every 30 secs.
> >
> >   CDN
>
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