Secure Administrator of Game Servers

About

SAGS (Secure Administrator of Game Servers) is a client-server application to administer game servers on GNU/Linux using a SSL connection.

The main idea is to provide a open source solution to GameHost by Xoanan Industries but working on GNU/Linux. It must provide a robust interface to manage a game server remotely.

Features

The new 0.5 version have the following features:

Server

• The server run as a system daemon.
• It have its own users list and provides an authetication method for the clients.
• It uses a SSL/TLS based network protocol to transfer securely the game information and administration data.
• It uses the OpenSSL libraries for network communication.
• Manages multiples process of game servers.
• It can restart a process if it dies.
• Stores a log for every managed process. It can be sent later to the clients.
• New format of users file add the indexes of allowed processes for a user.
• Chat support. Implements a IRC like channel where all clients connected can have a nice conversation.

Client

• The client provides a direct interface to the console of authorized game servers.
• You can change the console's font and the program remembers the value.
• The login dialog stores five entries of servers.
• You can save the console's messages to a file.
• It is portable to Windows platform (you need Dev-C++ to compile it and will need OpenSSL libraries to run it) because it have a GUI writed with wxWidgets.
• Win32 version has XP themes support.
• IRC-based chat support.
• Chat window manages normal messages and /me, /notice and /topic commands. Also shows when users joins and leaves the channel.