tekkitan

I never said I trusted ANY of the files from you. I simply just asked for a manual process. That is all. I don't see this discussion as off topic however.

That's fine, but I also set the login to anonymous after I'm done installing/updating. Running things as root and you thinking they are secure is a bad thing to think. If a user has access to one of your user accounts, assume they have root on your system. We have penetration testers that do just that. I know what type of questions you have gotten so far. I can gauge from the replies in this thread. Honestly, I skipped all pages between the first and last. Your script is great for people that don't know their way around Linux, but the fact that 7DTD is using your script in their wiki as the default way to install their game server is just wrong. A manual process needs to be documented. Yes, then why is your script being presented as the only way to do this something? It is typical for packages in a Linux system, yes. But this isn't a typical package. If it was, you'd publish it to the apt repo. Like I said, not everyone does things the way you do (or the way I do for that matter) which is why having an actual manual process (*note NOT scripted) is better for everyone in the long run if this game is going to take off in popularity. The lack of Linux dedicated server information for this game means less people are going to run their own servers and that means less people likely to be playing the game. Why not help out the game community and document a manual process?

Thanks for the reply. Steamcmd does not need to be run as root. I create users for each game server I run on my server. I run steamcmd just fine without root as those users. No one else has access to these users but me. I don't understand why you wouldn't have time though. You know what the scripts are doing. It can't be that hard to just explain what they are doing so people don't have to run untrusted scripts. And I mean no offense. I don't trust ANYONE, not just you I work in network security so I am very cautious with everything I do. Plus I have my own way of organizing my game servers, installing files into /usr/local and /etc are not one of them.

I appreciate the work, but do you have directions on not using your script? Your manual process still requires people to run a script. I don't think it is smart to use a random script on the internet that needs to run as root. I can go through all the scripts and see what they are doing I guess, but seems like there should be an actual manual process for people that like things set up a certain way and want to actually do it manually. Thanks again.