Found two bugs with ULX

[Lt.Smith]

Hey everyone,

I am Lt. Smith of the TrickysTutorials.com gmod community, and I recently installed ULX on our build servers. So far I am infinitely more happy about it than I was with ServerSecure, which we ran previously. However, I noticed two errors which might or might not be my fault, I don't know.

1) I've had reports of clients (in the "user" group) being able to use ulx banid/kickid in console. I edited the groups.txt so that those commands were in the "deny" section. I haven't tested it yet though, so it might have fixed it.

2) I'm using ULX together with Spacetech's Simple Prop Protection. However, when I jail someone, they can hit R a couple of times and free themselves. I asked Spacetech about it and he said something along the lines of "Megiddo should have added a hook that prevents anything from happening to those jail props."

I'm okay at reading and understanding Lua, and writing simple scripts but I'm not that good, so here's my humble request: please fix the jail, or tell me how to fix it!

[Megiddo]

1. Impossible. If it doesn't show up on the help they won't have access to it. For good measure, I tested anyways and was unable to use it.

2. I have it hooked to high heaven already. If it comes apart by a mod conflict, there's nothing we can do. Let me suggest it may be another mod causing this problem though, because we run Simple Prop Protection as well and I've never seen anyone escape, and when I tried just now on my server I was unable to do it.

[Lt.Smith]

Thanks for the reply.

I had a look myself and couldn't make it (kicking or banning as a user) work either. Must be a hoax then, somebody's trying to wind me up. I'll look into other mods that might be causing the jail thing to happen.

[MrPresident]

I've actually seen the jail thing happen on my servers as well.. Megiddo, couldn't you have the jail props spawn as owned by world and not with no owner? Because i think the problem is with players being able to somehow own the jail props by touching them enough, given they cant move them even if they do own them, they can still reload to unfreeze or use the remove all props button in SPP to remove them.

As far as your first request.. unless somehow those commands were put into their group of allows.. or they knew the console RCon password.. impossible.

[Megiddo]

I've actually seen the jail thing happen on my servers as well.. Megiddo, couldn't you have the jail props spawn as owned by world and not with no owner? Because i think the problem is with players being able to somehow own the jail props by touching them enough, given they cant move them even if they do own them, they can still reload to unfreeze or use the remove all props button in SPP to remove them.

As far as your first request.. unless somehow those commands were put into their group of allows.. or they knew the console RCon password.. impossible.

Yes, I was able to own the props but it still wouldn't let me unfreeze them.

[MrPresident]

Right Megiddo, but did you go into your SPP panel and remove all props? I still think having the cage props spawning owned by world would be a good "fix (if you will)" for whatever happens to be breaking this on some people's servers.

I cant simulate the moving of the cages, but I can get rid of them once I have owned them.. =)


Edit
Just confirmed Megiddo.. do this on your server..

1. Jail yourself or someone else if you want them to do it.
2. Whoever is jailed needs to gravity gun punt all the cage walls to own them
3. Utillities > Simple prop protection (Client) > Clean Up My Props (or whatever it's called.. the button to remove all props owned by you)
4. the jail walls that you own will be removed.. the user is still jailed though.. they cant noclip.. or spawn anything and if they die/suicide they'll respawn at the point they were jailed at still.. until they are unjailed.