Admin Mod 2.50.52

[CSN NewsBot]

Here is a little fun fact for you: A recent scan using The All-Seeing Eye showed that 54% of Counter-Strike servers currently have Admin Mod installed. Why am I telling you this? Because a new version of Admin Mod was released today:

For the main part this is the 2.50.51 dll (fixing the exploits) packaged in a full package with a few additional changes and bug fixes.

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changes/additions:


• added bbanboth option to ban() function which will ban both id and ip when provided with a name or id.
  
  
• added sm_reg as registered command for exec()
  
  
• moved client_exec notice to post function to get it displayed last.
  
  
• removed 'unbindall' from allowed execlient() commands.
  
  
• added default value (0) for amv_private_server
  
  
• changed sqlpassword to me off by default
  
  
• changed say() message in admin_slayteam to say "team xy was struck down..." instead of a player name. could also be changed to list all players on that team, but that may flood the clients.
  
  
• made the meta-interface mismatch message an info message and more precise.
  
  
  
  bug fixes:
  
  
• fixed exploit: logprintf() was used with a supplied string as format string, allowing a format exploit.
  
  
• fixed client exploit: we do now replace non-printable characters with '.' for admin commands and strings sent to a client via clientprint(). this is in order to screw hack code. still not a safe solution against this exploit but that can only be implememted on a client. it has nothing to do with admin mod.
  
  
• fixed not being able to use steamids in the password column in
  
  users.ini, which is necessary to link a name to a steamid.
  
  
• stop server from crashing when running a timer without the timer entity being present.
  
  
• stop plugins killing another plugin's timer.
  
  
• fixed bug in filesize() where a line was counted multiple times when it was longer than buf_size.
  
  
• fixed bug in writefile() messing up eols under win32.
  
  
• fixed a bug crashing a server when the mysql password() returned a null pointer.
  
  
• fixed typo in cvar name which prevented mysql password() encryption from working.
  
  
• fixed bug loading amx dll from win32 network drive.
  
  
• fixed a bug in admin authentication code.
  
  
• linux installer: fixed bug not detecting mm version when it had no patch number. fixed problems with bash under freebsd. tries to remember the server directories it has already installed to.

You can get the new version from the Admin Mod site. Four out of five dentists surveyed recommend using Admin Mod and StatsMe.

[Mr. Lugosi]

Edited by [user="2199"] @ [time="1048469254"]

Theres 35,816 CS servers showing with 19,381 of them having Admin Mod. Of course the numbers are constantly changing, but Admin Mod is on about 52-54% of all servers on average.

[BlackKnight]

Admin mod is the devil!



Execlient is evil! I hate admin-mod m'kay. It gives too much power to seven year olds on 56k sucking a lolipop.

Oh and on your 50% stat about admin mod well yes, isn't that dandy. But then again there are probably 60% of HL servers that are empty!

[Gameshot911]

Uhh admind mod = all seeing eye??

[MikeJ]

I have admined various servers since beta 6 and I can tell you that I have NEVER had a legitimate reason to use admin_execclient. If they have an offensive name just llama them, if they can't get there console key just tell them to go back to noobvile, if they accidentally unbound everything tell them to restore defaults in the CS menu. Having to set my config file to read only because of all these abusive admins and plugins is annoying.



Oh and don't get me started on AMX. That thing is the devil, it force changed cl_allowdownload to 1 so you can download the 839749874 sound files, model files, and sprites etc just so you can get the full enjoyment from the various plugins that allow you to glow blue, go invis, and shoot fireballs with HILAIOUS commentary from sampled wave files.

[STD-DeathHawk]

Am I the only one who doesn't see any new features and a bunch of misc useless changes?



Guess the exploit fixes are enough reason to upgrade though.

[Mr. Lugosi]

*Removed 'unbindall' from allowed execlient() commands

At least thats a step. Even if they completely removed execclient someone could probably make a plugin that would allow it. But if valve would somehow put the kubash on admin_execclient...

[CSN Member]

[STD-DeathHawk]

I still like our bot which renames people not in our clan who are using our tag. If execclient was removed though, it wouldn't be the end of the world, and at least there's a warning before you join the server that your config can be messed with.



Also, writecfg is a good thing to use before connecting to the above servers that have execclient enabled

[Gameshot911]

writecfg? please explain mr. STD



*AAH AAHH ITS GHANARIA!! GET IT OFF..GET IT OFF!!*

[AZReDWiNG]

AMX > Adminmod



Everything Adminmod can offer + more. And even originally developed by the same guy.



(AMX == Adminmod X)

[MikeJ]

AZReDWiNG wrote..

AMX > Adminmod



Everything Adminmod can offer + more.

Dear god NO!

[thor2488]

That's like saying the atomic bomb is better than a little handgun. Of course it offers more, but look at all those side effects...

[Gameshot911]

but still..THE POWER

[AZReDWiNG]

thor2488 wrote..

That's like saying the atomic bomb is better than a little handgun. Of course it offers more, but look at all those side effects...

In the case of AMX/Adminmod, what side effect is that?



AMX has StatsMe INCLUDED, plugins up the ass for both CS and DoD, and pretty much every mod ever created server-side is in it. There's a chickenmod plugin for AMX, for Christ's sake.