SLSsteam - Linux Steam Family sharing lock remover & DLC unlocker released

Since some Lemmy users have asked me via DM and also searched my other socials to ask me about my old bypass I thought I'd share my new one with Lemmy too.

I also uploaded the source in case anyone wants to look at it (or even extend it, who knows).

Sorry for the extraordinary wait.

Have fun guys :)

Edit: I should have known Lemmy wouldn't like a semi private forum, even though it's all about things like this there. Here is the already build SLSsteamso + Source Code for anyone to download anonymously if they prefer it that way.

To use it just extract the SLSsteamso somewhere and then start steam like this:

LD_AUDIT="/full/path/to/SLSsteam.so" steam

Also has an installer which supports fish shell and .desktop entries. If you use one of those you can just run ./install.sh to install it. If the installer doesn't work for you, you can still use the manual method.

Uninstallation:

Delete ~/.local/share/SLSsteam
Delete ~/.local/share/applications/steam.desktop and (if it exists) steam-native.desktop
Delete ~/.config/fish/conf.d/SLSsteam.fish (if it exists)

To build it just run: make

Credits:

Gnanf: Helping me test the Family Sharing bypass
rdbo: For his great libmem library, which saved me a lot of development and learning time
oleavr and all the other awesome people working on Frida for easy instrumentation which helps a lot in analyzing, testing and debugging
All the folks working on Ghidra, this was my first project using it and I'm in love with it!

Edit history:

Uploaded update with more hooks because I just noticed family sharig still killed some games
Added a config file to ~/.config/SLSsteam/config.yaml
Fixed a bug in the config creation code (I was tired okay :D)
Changed some config names, please delete your old config to regenerate it. Otherwise default values will be used
Added Experimental config option to force the play button to be enabled
Added install script

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42 comments

What's the Steam Family Sharing Lock?
- For example if your family sharing library has 1 license for a Game only one of it's members will be able to play it simultaneously. This modification disables that lock for everyone using it
  
  Does it put you in offline mode or is there some other kind of magic?
  
  The lock is client sided, that's the magic. You can play online just fine, I use it all the time to play multiplayer with my friends :)
  
  Damn that's insane. We always had a bit trouble finding games to play together that we all have, waiting for a sale and what not. This would be really nice to play with some close friends and family.
  
  Yeah, it's great. Just fyi in case you wanna family share with your friends and Steam tells you "...not living in the same household..." is easily fixed by login into your friends account on your PC and vice versa.
  You can use Rustdesk for that, so you don't have to tell each other your passwords. Just keep in mind that families are restricted to 6 members atm
  
  We got tailscale installed on all of our devices with them connected to my PC so I think using exit node will solve the IP issue. Thanks for the tip.
  
  Fantastic! Thanks for this.
  
  No problem Mr. Ace! :)
  
  They will ban your account and you will be crying because they took away all your games. Dont abuse the system is pretty generous already.
  
  They will ban your account and you will be crying because they took away all your games.
  Projecting much? I've been using mods like this for a good decade. Also Valve has way bigger fish to fry with their shitty abusable shop system, all the people selling Steam market items on other websites and so on. The list is long
  Dont abuse the system is pretty generous already.
  You know what community this is in, right? It's all about bypassing and abusing the system to get shit for free
  ~~Edit: Corrected some false statements on my part.~~ Edit2: Undid first edit because seems like I got fed false informations
  
  Huh? Thats not true. Dbzero the creator of this community is pirate by principle to fuck the bad companies , not to abuse and get shit for free from companies that treat their customers okay.
  
  Ok @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com Let's settle this debate, does the dbzer0 instance and/or the Piracy community here push the "Good Guy Valve" stance and thus consider this bad practice, or do we consider Valve to be like any other company which uses DRM in regards to this situation. That is to say it is permitted and encouraged like breaking any other DRM.
  \ Would love to hear your thoughts on this matter.
  If dn0 isn't available, another community mod or instance admin can feel free to answer this, I CCed you in the bottom of this comment. I apologize if the ping was annoying.
  CC: @Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com @RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com
  
  I guess, do whatever fits your budget and/or conscience? I don't think we push a particular philosophy. Folks pirate for different reasons.
  
  That makes sense. Everyone has different motives and reasons for pirating, would make sense that we wouldn't push one thing or the other like that person is suggesting. Thanks for your feedback.
  
  Personally, I pirate just about everything but do buy what I like from indie devs. Bonus if it is on GOG.
  
  That is also my approach
  
  Well then sorry for spewing false nonsense. I know Lemmy will flame me for this but Valve is still a soulless corporation fucking everyone over. Just not as much as most others
  
  You're not spewing false nonsense, that person is talking out of the ass, and trying to push their own personal opinions about piracy and DRM bypassing as if they are objective or officially sanctioned by the community moderators or the instance staff. They are not. Their opinion that we shouldn't use these tools because Valve is somehow good is just that, an opinion. Not a very correct one at that since Valve has shown they aren't good guys before like this person says.
  
  Well, thanks for letting me know :)
  Felt kinda weird, but I actually know some people think like that so it didn't feel to much off
  
  far be it from me to defend any corporation, but doesnt this send wrong kind of a message to them? They didnt need to make family sharing, let alone remind you if you can already play a game through it when purchasing one. This isnt typical behaviour and should be allowed a little slack for it, to show other corporations that not being asshole is more profitable.
  If valve goes bad then nothing is too horrible, but until that, its kind of bad form to stab a hand that offers a little kindness, even if their ultimate goal is to just make money by staying on top by having good will. I dont think we can expect to get anything better.
  other corps dont seem to be getting the message that not being asshole is more profitable, but I think valve can very easily start thinking that being nice is weakness if that is exploited.
  
  Are you full of shit? Their family sharing is the most locked down garbage there is, they limit you to families of 4 and make you wait a year before you can join another family. That's not a courtesy, that's a fake courtesy so they can say they provided something, and claim to be "good guy Valve", actually that's not true, they never claimed to be good guy Valve. It doesn't help that they made publishers able to mark games as not family share supported.
  While they added so much to the Family share feature they also took away a lot and locked it down considerably. I'm not going to pretend the fancy new options and ability to add 4 accounts is an upgrade, you get locked out of it for a year if you join and leave and any publisher can refuse to participate.
  Let us not pretend that Valve is somehow trying to do good, they're trying to make themselves look good while providing less, and when people point out the shortcomings they try to turn us against each other by saying it was "because of abuse", the real reason is because they don't want to give it their all.
  
  i just dont have any faith that things can get better so i dont want them to get even worse. its better than nothing.
  
  You're absolutely right in thinking that way, but this isn't the only tool of it's kind. The most popular one is GreenLuma, which has multiple thousands of users. So me making a similliar one for Linux doesn't really matter in the grand scale of things
  
  yeah, i just wish people thought more about these things. There are consequences not just to yourself but possibly towards fellow pirates and bystanders. Personally I have benefitted from family sharing greatly, much more than from piracy as with piracy you have to accept the possibility of malware which I cant afford at the moment. I really dont want to see valve rescind it.

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