Halflife: Overwriting protected configs in 'writecfg' command

[Splatt581]

The writecfg command has restrictions on writing configs that can be automatically executed when client or server starts. Their list includes:

config.cfg
autoexec.cfg
listenserver.cfg
server.cfg
userconfig.cfg

1. The check can be bypassed by adding a forward slash to beginning of name:

] writecfg config
skipping writecfg output, invalid filename given
] writecfg /config
/config.cfg successfully created!

1. I also suggest adding to the list language.cfg, since game client tries to execute this config at startup as well.

[Splatt581]

HL1 also tries to execute violence.cfg on startup. It may still be worthwhile to add substring hw/ to list of blocked ones, so that configs for video cards that are on valve/hw/ path cannot be overwritten.

[ghost]

And also valve \ valve.rc

[Splatt581]

And also valve \ valve.rc

writecfg can only write files with .cfg extension, so valve.rc cannot be overwritten.

[ghost]

Once, after connecting with one unreliable REHLDS server, a line appeared in this file:
connect ip: port
Perhaps not these, but by some other workaround, it was rewritten from the server side. Therefore, it is also a good idea to fix it here. It also modifies or creates the file "joystick.cfg", which is also readable if available.

[mikela-valve]

Fixed, this will be included in the next beta update.

[BUXPb]

game.cfg
joystick.cfg

[Splatt581]

I think this list should also include banned.cfg, which uses cvar bannedcfgfile by default and listip.cfg, where writeip command writes data. HL1 also executes skill.cfg in a singleplayer game.

I will summarize resulting list:

language.cfg
violence.cfg
hw/
joystick.cfg
game.cfg
banned.cfg
listip.cfg
skill.cfg

[mikela-valve]

Thanks @Splatt581.
The list that will be blocked from writecfg is:

• config.cfg
• autoexec.cfg
• listenserver.cfg
• server.cfg
• userconfig.cfg
• language.cfg
• violence.cfg
• banned.cfg
• listip.cfg
• skill.cfg
• game.cfg
• joystick.cfg
• hw/*.cfg

[Splatt581]

I confirm, fixed in 8254 build.