Re: (No) Security danger when using OLC

From: George (greerga@DRAGON.HAM.MUOHIO.EDU)
Date: 10/31/97


On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Chagai Kofler wrote:

>Lately I came across a security danger when you let builders use OLC.
>If your MUD supports OLC with affection feature of objects like
>level or exp, an object with +level may advance your builders to the
>position of an Imp and therefor giving them the priveleged commands
>that they are not supposed to use.

  case APPLY_LEVEL:
    /* ??? GET_LEVEL(ch) += mod; */
    break;

It is not implemented.

>One of my builders tried this trick on my MUD and deleted the Imps.
>Although they cant take over the MUD, still they could perform some
>annoying acts.

You should've thought about why that line was commented and its possible
implications. :)

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George Greer  -  Me@Null.net   | Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity
http://www.van.ml.org/~greerga | is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard


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