gbans

gbans is a centralized game administration system for Team Fortress 2 that incorporates a global ban system similar to sourcebans++ as well as some additional basic community tools like news, forums & wikis. The project was initially only intended to be a more modern & secure replacement for sourcebans, but has evolved to handle broader community aspects.

Stability / Usage Notice

While we currently are dogfooding the project on a community with around 50 servers, I would not recommend non-developers use the project yet. It's still in fairly major development mode and large sections are still incomplete or function but very rough.

Before we tag a 1.0.0 release, we will write some proper user-facing documentation. You can however look at the currently incomplete docs.

Features

• [ ] General
  • [x] Multi server support
  • [x] Global bans & mutes
  • [x] Docker support
• [ ] Import/Export of gbans databases
  • [ ] Backend linking of gbans services to enable use of other operators lists in real-time.
  • [x] tf2_bot_detector compatible player list exports.
• [x] Game support, support for other games would be possible, but is not currently planned.
  • [x] Team Fortress 2
• [ ] Blocking lists & types
  • [x] Valves source server banip config
  • [ ] Existing sourcebans database
  • [x] CIDR/IP bans
  • [x] tf2_bot_detector
  • [x] Arbitrary 3rd party CIDR block lists, Proxy/VPN/Datacenter bans
  • [ ] FireHOL databases
• [x] Database support
  • [x] Postgresql w/PostGIS & ip4r extensions
• [x] Centralized UDP based logging
  • [x] Message History
  • [x] Connection History
• [ ] Match Histories
  • [ ] Stats
    • [x] Overall
    • [x] Per Weapon
    • [ ] Per Maps
    • [ ] Per Server
    • [ ] Per Timeframe
    • [ ] Daily position changes
    • [ ] Charts
  • [ ] "Skill" based scrambles using historical match data
• [ ] SourceMod Plugin
  • [x] Game server authentication
  • [x] Restrict banned players from connecting
  • [x] Restrict muted/gagged players on join
  • [x] Dynamically load admins/mods/reserved slots from gbans
  • [x] Sourcemod admins-sql-* plugin compatibility.
  • [x] STV Recording with auto truncating methods to cleanup old demos
  • [ ] /gb_ban <player_id|steam_id> duration Reason Ban a user
  • [ ] /gb_unban Unban a previously banned user
  • [ ] /gb_kick Kick a user
  • [x] /gb_mod or /mod <message> Call for a mod on discord
• [x] Markdown formatting support for all multiline inputs with image uploading
• [x] Community Forum System
  • [x] Categories
  • [x] Forums
  • [x] Private / Restricted forums
  • [x] Signatures
  • [x] Active user display
  • [x] Advanced markdown editor interface
• [ ] User Interfaces
  • [ ] CLI
  • [x] Discord
  • [x] Web
    • Public / Authenticated
      • [x] Server Browser
      • [x] News
      • [x] Wiki
      • [x] User reports
      • [x] Ban Appeals
      • [x] SourceTV Downloads
      • [x] In-Game chat logs
      • [x] Server browser
    • Mods
      • [x] Edit Word Filters
      • [x] Ban player by steam/net/asn/group
      • [x] Current Reports
      • [x] Current Appeals
      • [x] Edit News
      • [x] Edit contests
      • [x] In-Game Vote logging
      • [x] Networking Queries
      • [x] Player IP History
      • [x] Players Sharing IPs
      • [x] Query IP information: Location/ASN/Proxy/Map
      • [x] External CIDR block lists editor
    • Admins
      • [x] Edit Servers
      • [x] Edit game moderator/admin permissions. Admins/Groups/Command overrides/Group immunities.

Docker

Docker is recommended to run gbans. You can find the official docker images on ghcr.io.

Assuming you have created your config file and have a database setup you can run it using something like:

docker run -it --rm -v `$(pwd)`/gbans.yml:/app/gbans.yml:ro ghcr.io/leighmacdonald/gbans:latest

There is also a docker-compose config you can use which provides the database as well.

docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml up --build --remove-orphans --abort-on-container-exit --exit-code-from gbans

Documentation

For installation, configuration and usage instruction, developer notes, please see the docs.

Contributors

Leigh MacDonald	Gcommer	rjdXpxigYxNT	Ivan	Mircoxi	Matthew
Naleksuh	camp3r101	Jack Avery	Thomas Durieux