[Copied from Facepunch Forums] Method of allowing Linux players to join EAC secured servers with the wine64 build#22684

Original Post – https://forum.facepunch.com/t/method-of-allowing-linux-players-to-join-eac-secured-servers-with-the-wine64-build/240528 –

 The game “Squad” has enabled the wine64 version of EAC for their game and it fixed the issue for them.

Currently Rust works on Linux via proton with one issue. That being that you can join servers with EAC enabled which are basically all of them and if you host a server with EAC disabled in no longer shows up in the server list and would probably get riddled with cheaters if it was popular.

Here is what it looks like when EAC tries to load:
[2021.01.08-10.46.57] [Connection] Connect result: No error (0) Response Code: 403 Destination IP: 13.226.18.100 [2021.01.08-10.46.57] [HTTP Error Response] HTTP Response Code: 403 Curl Code: 0. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Falling back to a secondary CDN path. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] [Connection] Connecting to URL: https://download-alt.easyanticheat.net/api/v1/games/12/client/wine64/download/?uuid=[REDACTED] [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Download Progress: 0%. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] [Connection] Connect result: SSL connect error (35) Response Code: 0 Destination IP: 172.67.156.223 [2021.01.08-10.46.57] Connection to the Content Distribution Network failed! Curl Code: 35. [2021.01.08-10.46.57] [EAC Callback] Code 901. Message: 'Connection to the Content Distribution Network failed! Curl Code: 35.'.

Notice that it gets a 403 meaning its forbidden to be accessed from the server serving this file. If you were to enable the wine64 version of EAC it would allow Linux players to play with no issues and would require no extra support from the devs as it would just run the windows version and the rest is protons problem. Proton can basically run any game only problem is with games with invasive client side anti-cheats etc. All the devs would have to do is request for EAC to enable it for their game or maybe it might be a check mark in a dashboard. Never used EAC before so I wouldn’t know. If this could be enabled the Linux community would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

Please!

Please!

I can only support the effort of making the game accessible for linux gamers.
Eventually everyone will have to make their games Linux compatible.
Not everyone will always use Windows.

Please!!!

Please :3

Bump this up

Please!

As a Linux user - yes please!