How to protect Admin account

[kurlrip 10]

Hello.

Today the map has change on my server, and i wonder why ??

So i look in server log, and i see :

Admin Özgür logged in.

?!??

well, Özgür it s not me :rolleyes:

So how to protect this. I only put a password to admin account, but, what can i do against that ?

It s possible to do something else ??

[maddogx 13]

Is voting disabled?

Have you followed these steps?

[kurlrip 10]

i just do that. Thk

Just little problem cause i don t arrive to put

-bepath=

Each time it put me : BattlEye initialization failed

It s works only if i don t change the default folder of battleye so

armaserv/battleye/

[Overlord 0]

Is it Linux server? Copy files from Battleye to battleye and keep to lower casings. Wonder if that's a bug in the server?

[kurlrip 10]

yes linux server.

I put all in lowercase. Maybe i musn t change the folder.

When i put in :

/srv/arma2/myprotect/battleye/

that don t work

but /srv/arma2/battleye/

it s ok

that why i beleived it was that i put in -bepath which was incorect.

[kurlrip 10]

Shit! !!!

Someone has connected in Admin again.

[Hud Dorph 22]

Are you sure he just dont vote himself as admin ???

What value are your "voteThreshold" set to ??

[kurlrip 10]

Ahhaaa okkkkk

i put voteThreshold = 0.33;

that means that if someone ask a vote for being admin, he could be admn for changing map for exemple ?

Edit :

Log of server :

10:06:14 Player PeaceWalkerS connecting.

10:06:15 Player PeaceWalkerS connected (id=6289472).

10:06:19 Admin PeaceWalkerS logged in.

It s maybe little quick for have time to ask vote no ?

5 seconds after connecting he is admin ?

[Overlord 0]

When he's alone on server and vote himself (#vote admin [player name]), he'll get 100% of votes. Then he's able to change missions, kick players and so on.

If you just want yourself to be able to admin server by pw login (select/ start/ end missions), you better "disable" the vote admin option with

voteThreshold=1.01;

Any value over 1.00 will work, cause nobody can get more than 100% of votes (1.01 needs 101%)

Hope it helps, but with this option you better have a good mission cycle :)

[kurlrip 10]

thanks you.

i m little :confused_o:

[OrLoK 20]

Hello all

slightly OT but still related, quite often ill join a server that has a map/mod set I know and so love and play alone for a bit, hoping for others to join.

Whilst there, I usually vote my self Admin, so I know there'll be no tomfoolery.

Now, it's not my server, is it bad form for me to do this? I've often felt a bit naughty but have never been admonished for it. (These are fully pub servers btw).

tia

Rgds

LoK

[Overlord 0]

Not at all, not at all. If voting is enabled I guess the server owner want ppl to fiddle around themselves.

Server admins who NOT want players to log in as admin usually disable the option, and run a pre-defined mission cycle.

[OrLoK 20]

hello there,

That's what I was hoping (and thought), but the ofp,vbs,arma etc community does tend to have quite "individual" attitudes to what is perceived as good or bad form.

Even though iv'e been around the community for years I was never quite sure as i'm somewhat of a lone wolf.

As long as i'm not stepping on any toes, I'm a happy camper. (literally)

rgds

LoK

[.da.Trademark 10]

We enable voting on our CTI server but not our other servers. We disable it. Admin Voting is usually enabled in case an actual server administrator is not available to take care of things or adjust parameters.