RCon server administration coming to ArmA 2!

[cri74]

Good news. Thanks for developing

I see that there is a command to change passwords for the Rcon, this means anyone logging in to Rcon will be able to change it?

Will there be different account settings to make someone a "superuser" whilst others will be regular admins, possible to assign users of Rcon different settings so to speak ?

[GossamerSolid]

Thank you so much Battleye! This is great stuff!

[Demon Cleaner]

Thumbs up $able !

[BigMorgan]

Auto-kick for ping is fantastic.

I've seen people banned for having ridiculous pings because they kept rejoining after being told to d/c until they fix their connection, which is really crappy.

Considering how much this game can be screwed up by high pings this is a necessary tool and I am very grateful to the BE folks for delivering it to the community.

[Defunkt]

Thanks heaps!

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Hmmm... does it work for a Linux server? If so, where would one place the .cfg file?

[$able]

is there any command line to auto enter IP port and so on directly to the tool
such as

BERCon IP=123.456.789.101 port=2302 password=1561561155

Something like this will be added soon.

---------- Post added at 01:25 ---------- Previous post was at 01:19 ----------

I see that there is a command to change passwords for the Rcon, this means anyone logging in to Rcon will be able to change it?

Will there be different account settings to make someone a "superuser" whilst others will be regular admins, possible to assign users of Rcon different settings so to speak ?

Account control (multiple logins) might be added in the future.

And yes, you are right, being able to change the password may not always be suitable.

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Hmmm... does it work for a Linux server? If so, where would one place the .cfg file?

In the one and only BE folder.

Please keep in mind that right now BE loads "BEServer.cfg", in the future it will load "beserver.cfg" on Linux (conforming with the lower-case "beserver.so" file name).

[rundll.exe]

This is great for the MP community, thanks!

With a quick test I saw that the tool doesnt resolve hostnames to IP, could that be easyly added?
Its quite a bit more easy to enter your servers hostname (myservername.com) then an IP number.

[Defunkt]

In the one and only BE folder.

Please keep in mind that right now BE loads "BEServer.cfg", in the future it will load "beserver.cfg" on Linux (conforming with the lower-case "beserver.so" file name).

Ah okay, that's where I went wrong, I lower-cased it. Cheers!

[Mikobiko]

So far it seems to work good. Stuff Id love to see added:

*Ability to read in-game chat
*Ability to post to in-game chat through rcon
*Perhaps a webpage front end like how Punkbuster handles theres once the API is complete?
*Removal of ability to change password. It currently makes this tool unusuable. I cannot give people admin and keep control over it due to this. The only way the password should be set-able is if it is done in the config file.
*Ability to assign maxping right in beserver.cfg

Do you plan to publish the API when complete?

[Defunkt]

*Ability to assign maxping right in beserver.cfg

Already can...

You can put "MaxPing [ping]" in your BE Server config file, which causes all players exceeding this limit to be kicked from the server.