Q2Admin

Q2Admin is a management and security addon for Quake 2 servers. It acts as a proxy game module; the Quake 2 server loads q2admin as its game module and q2admin will open the actual game module and proxy between the two.

Features

• Detect and handle cheaters (old ratbots and proxies)
• Chat and name filtering (prevent certain words from being used)
• Force or prohibit skins
• Force client-side variables (cvars) to ranges or exact values (cl_maxfps, rate, timescale, etc)
• Useful commands commands added (say_person, play_team, stuff)
• Remote management via webapp still under development
  • View status and logs of all your Q2 servers (chats, frags, connections)
  • Issue commands to groups of servers
  • Delegate control of servers to other admin users
• Very flexible logging (up to 32 different log files)
• Custom banning (IP, chat, nick)
• Built-in command disabling
• Flood control
• Limited RCON support
• Map Entity disabling by class (weapon_bfg, ammo_slugs, item_quad, trigger_hurt, etc...)
• Custom voting

Compiling for Linux

Simply run make in the root folder

Compiling for Windows using MinGW

Edit .config-win32mingw file to suit your environment and rename it to .config. Then run make to build your DLL.

Configuration

Copy all all the .cfg files from the runtime-config directory to your mod directory. The main config file is q2admin.cfg, edit this file to suit your needs. You should specify the real game library in the main config file using the gamelibrary option. You can also the old gamex86_64.real.so or gamex86.real.dll method or use the +set gamelib <libraryname> command-line argument when starting your Quake 2 server.

Dependencies

1. libcurl
2. glib2.0

For Debian run apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libglib2.0-dev

For Fedora run dnf install libcurl-devel glib2-devel

For Centos run yum install libcurl-devel glib2-devel

or...if you're a glutton for punishment, compile them manually on your own.

Settings

Almost all settings are available in the runtime config files (q2a*.cfg). There are a couple CVARs that can be specified at the command line though.

Server CVARs

CVAR	Purpose
gamelib	Specify the real game library for q2admin to load
q2aconfig	Specify the main config filename (default = q2admin.cfg)

Config Options

Option	Default	What it does
gamelibrary	none	Specifies the real mod library to use. CVAR > config > filename
remote_enabled	no	Enable remote admin functionality