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Howdy,

I know A LOT of the regulars get fed up of the posting about ppl having their game destroyed by some idiot by him taking over the company. I suggest that we make it mandatory to set a password when making a new company. I also believe that this would have a huge impact on the amount of people wanting a central banning ip range system, as with the passwords in theory there would be A LOT harder for idiots to destroy games.

This would also help out those people who have just grabbed the game. For me the first time i learnt about the passwords was just after i got my game destroyed and i know i almost didnt want to play any more.

Post what you reckon.

-Marc

Very clever idea! The only thing is that some people want to let anyone join and play without asking for a password. However that is a small inconvenience to pay for having less company destroyers!

Simple - allow an empty string as the set password. A user who wants to leave their company open can just hit ENTER.

Oh, Yeah! I completely forgot that was how you removed a password! All in all, it seems like a good idea to enter a password automatically when you make a company.

If I want anyone to join, I can place a sign with the password.

athanasios wrote:If I want anyone to join, I can place a sign with the password.

Well, but unless he joins the server first (at least as spectator), he can't see the sign. For this to work effectively, people should be able to move from spectator to a company (or to create new company and join it) without need for reconnecting.

there is a config option ( not in 0.5.3 though - cannot remember when it was introduced)

default_company_pass =

whenever you create a company the pass will be set to that

dihedral wrote:there is a config option ( not in 0.5.3 though - cannot remember when it was introduced)

default_company_pass =

whenever you create a company the pass will be set to that :-)

This got into trunk quite recently, though it have two disadvantages - in game you don't see whether there is some password or not (you have to look into the config file to check for that)

Second, it is stored in plaintext in config file. If you do not realize that and send config file to someone (like with some bug report to the bugtracker) ... oops, your password just became public.

it's your own job to check the content of what you send!
openttd should not be responsible for peoples own sillyness!

btw: same thing for server config, server_pw and rcon_pw are both plain text, besids it's a game - you just dont use sensitive passwords there

I know. But unfortunately many people are probably not aware of that. Whil server owners are probably at least somewhat educated and may realize the password is there, players (or at least some of them) may have less computer skills and they won't realize the password is stored in config. We store high-scores in hs.dat, so we may store the passwords in some separate file too. That way anybody can send config to anyone without worrying about editing out the password first (or forgetting to do that and then ripping hairs out of his head)

Isn't there a console command to set a password? If so, then we can start using on_client.scr for automatically setting a password without having it typed in openttd.cfg.

edit: found it: company_pw does the trick!

edit2: strange, in the console it says "company_pw changed to blabla", however when I start another game, and check the server, my company isn't PW-protected... Weird

athanasios wrote:If I want anyone to join, I can place a sign with the password.

i rename my company to ... "Password: PW" and ... i leave ... almost same

Grolsch wrote:Isn't there a console command to set a password? If so, then we can start using on_client.scr for automatically setting a password without having it typed in openttd.cfg.

edit: found it: company_pw does the trick!

edit2: strange, in the console it says "company_pw changed to blabla", however when I start another game, and check the server, my company isn't PW-protected... Weird

Thats because "on_client.scr" is called before you actually join the company, thus the password is set, and then you join the company. FOr this idea to work, it would have to be the other way.

besids it would set the password when you join other peoples companies, and i dont think they would thank you for that!
and exactly how often do you have to pass your config file on to others that you cannot your default_company_pw ?
and exactly how many people actually touch their config files manually?

I made a patch that shows the password dialog when you join a NEW company.

Please look here: Password at join

really nice nuke buster. Hopefully it wil fall into the trunk.