Making Player change name

[CountryHam]

Phreeze, Historically, TURBO+ Admins have been asked to make Player change name to something meaningful. The purpose of this practice was to reduce the risk of a hacker attacking and possibly crashing the server. Legitimate players would change their name without argument. Also, some players will join with vulgar, nasty names who need to change their name. These names contain vulgar or insulting or racist words that offend other players and cause them to leave. Is there a way for SEC2 to monitor player names and warn them to change their name if it contains certain unacceptable words, or the default name Player (there are other language versions of Player, such as Jourer, etc.)? Thanks again CH

[Phreeze]

I can create a list similar to BanUserList.txt.

Any name with a substring matching a name in the invalid player names list would receive 'x' number of warnings before being kicked.

One thing to keep in mind though is that it would still be possible to create names using other UTF8 characters to avoid the invalid list. Then it would become a game of cat & mouse. I don't see any way to avoid it though.

-Phreeze