[quake2] FYI: RCON_PASSWORD Security Issue

brendanburns at attbi.com brendanburns at attbi.com
Thu Mar 21 11:14:53 EST 2002


Jeremy,
I think the change only affects macro expansion on
dedicated servers.  It shouldn't affect client (or stand
alone) behaviour.  I'll test it some more tonight...

--brendan
> > On 3/20/02 6:18 PM, "Steven Fuller" <relnev at icculus.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> http://www.quakesrc.org/forum/topicDisplay.php?topicID=160
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Steven,
> > Thanks,  I'll make the appropriate changes to the code and check them
> > into CVS by tonight.
> >
> > --brendan
> 
> Should this be a global change?  It seems that if the quick fix from the
> forum is used then client side macro support will break.  Mabey this would
> be a good optional thing that could be changed at runtime? Either by
> commandline or as quake variable?  Just a thought sorry if i'm off-base.
> 
> jeremy
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