Does this code work for normal or ASCII PFILE(I am guessing it is for normal
PFILES because with ASCII you just have to open up the pfile and look at the
password).
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Marc Mapplebeck
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/1508/
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Carpenter <abram@DELTANET.COM>
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
Date: Monday, August 31, 1998 02:55
Subject: [code] password retrieval
>Just thought I would pass along this little cut and paste code. Using this
>will retrieve the
>password of any given player. If you have ever been approached by a mortal
>or ever received an email from a mudder asking for their password, this
>code will help you do just that.
>
>I suggest that only IMPS have this command and that you actually come up
>with some policy for giving out a password...maybe you don't give them out,
>but if you wanted to.....
>
>Also, I may be showing some of my ignorance in that, there may already be
>some nice little utility already built into the mud that does this, but I
>haven't found it.
>
>Have fun, and thanks for everyones contributions to this list
>Abram - Legends of Blades and Magic
>
>/* I put this in act.wizard.c */
>
>ACMD(get_password)
>{
> struct char_data *victim = 0;
> struct char_file_u tmp_store;
>
>
> half_chop(argument, buf1, buf2);
>
> if (!*buf1) {
> send_to_char("Usage: passwd 'live/file' 'playername'\r\n", ch);
> return;
> }
>
>
> if (is_abbrev(buf1, "live")) {
> if (!*buf2) {
> send_to_char("Whose Password?\r\n", ch);
> } else {
> if ((victim = get_player_vis(ch, buf2, 0))) {
> sprintf(buf, "%s\r\n", GET_PASSWD(victim));
> send_to_char(buf, ch);
> }
> else
> send_to_char("No such player around.\r\n", ch);
> }
> }
>
> if (is_abbrev(buf1, "file")) {
> if (!*buf2) {
> send_to_char("Whose Password?\r\n", ch);
> } else {
> CREATE(victim, struct char_data, 1);
> clear_char(victim);
> if (load_char(buf2, &tmp_store) > -1) {
> store_to_char(&tmp_store, victim);
> char_to_room(victim, 0);
> if (GET_LEVEL(victim) > GET_LEVEL(ch))
> send_to_char("Sorry, you can't do that.\r\n", ch);
> else {
> sprintf(buf, "%s\r\n", GET_PASSWD(victim));
> send_to_char(buf, ch);
> extract_char(victim);
> }
> } else {
> send_to_char("There is no such player.\r\n", ch);
> free(victim);
> }
> }
> }
>
> }
>
>/* Don't forget to add this ACMD to interpreter.c along with some command
name (duh) */
>
>
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