[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12642) Voting considered harmful

["Per I. Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12642 >

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Jason Short wrote:
> This isn't good because HACK actually is a security measure. It
> prevents a foreign client from connecting to a locally-spawned server
> and taking over it. It prevents players from saving games in arbitrary
> locations on pubserver.

I wrote:
>  - cmdlevel is removed entirely; hack commands are available only to
>    'game host' and 'cheater' that are trusted (same reqs as now)

"trusted" here means exactly what you mean - only a local user.

> I think your system is still too complicated.Simply having a game host
> is enough.This is accomplished with cmdlevel ctrl first.

So how do you deal with cheating? Please do not bring us back to the mess
we were in before we had voting. For all its faults it did solve a real
problem.

  - Per