ECO Server Strange Loop Games Token authentication

[ArthurErlich]

Description

Strange Loops Games removed the user and pass authentication and replaced it with a token based authentication.

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[danny6167]

I agree that we need to at least add token authentication, but don't they still support username/password authentication? This worked fine when I was testing last week.

[ArthurErlich]

Thanks for the replay,
I did a test, or rather i wanted the server running and id blocked me there that the authentication with password failed.
But it can be because i did not created a strange loop games account in the first place, It was created via Steam.

Tested it with:
SLG_username + Token
Steam_username + Token

@danny6167 Can you check if the login with username+password works? I will re add the login and make both option available if username and password still work.

[danny6167]

Yep I'll double check it tonight.

It would be great to move people to token only, but I also don't want to break existing installs if they are working.
Perhaps it would be best to retain the user/pass option but mention in the description that it's a deprecated option that will be removed in future.

[danny6167]

Can confirm - SLG username and password based authentication do still work

[ArthurErlich]

I changed the startup script. It will now switch between username/password or the token, depending on what is filled.

It looks like the Laravel code required_without:SLG_TOKEN does not work correctly—maybe a limitation of the parser in the panel? Furthermore, it parses the variable weirdly.

That is why I added a description text and warned the user that they should use either the token or the username and password.

[danny6167]

The way you've don't this startup is overly complicated.
You can include a flag only if it's set using syntax like this for example.
$([ -n "$SERVER_PASSWORD" ] && echo "-serverpassword=\"${SERVER_PASSWORD}\"")

And yes, unfortunately due to the way the validation rules are applied you can't use required_without: and other rules that need to consider cross-fields.

[ArthurErlich]

Thanks for the Reply and i wish for a good new year.

Yes, I know that my solution is a bit complicated. My Idea was to stop the user to fill both Password and Token field and getting an error.

But if you wish, I can also just change to your snipped and just echoing the start parameter when the field is filled in the config

$([ -n "$SERVER_PASSWORD" ] && echo "-serverpassword=\"${SERVER_PASSWORD}\"")

[danny6167]

Happy new year.
Yes, Please go ahead and change to that style of variable use.

[ArthurErlich]

Hello @danny6167.

I finally found some time to modify and test the changes.
There is also an offline mode for ECO. I found a web host that documented the offline flag a bit.

The startup script looks like this for now:

./EcoServer \
$([ -n "$SERVER_PASSWORD" ] && echo "-serverpassword=\"${SERVER_PASSWORD}\"") \
$([ -n "$SLG_TOKEN" ] && echo "-userToken=\"${SLG_TOKEN}\"") \
$([ -n "$SLG_USER" ] && echo "-username=\"${SLG_USER}\"") \
$([ -n "$OFFLINE_MODE" ]  && echo "-offline") \

Simply print the flag it is set.

I am also not able to reliably test the configs because of some errors in the Network.template file:

Failed to start the server. Exception was Exception: JsonReaderException
Message:Error reading JObject from JsonReader. Path '', line 0, position 0.
Source:Newtonsoft.Json
Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: Error reading JObject from JsonReader. Path '', line 0, position 0.
   at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Load(JsonReader reader, JsonLoadSettings settings)
   at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(String json, JsonLoadSettings settings)
   at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(String json)
   at Eco.Core.Plugins.PluginConfig`1.LoadAsync(String filename)
Outer Exceptions:
One or more errors occurred. (Error reading JObject from JsonReader. Path '', line 0, position 0.)[