Admin Setup Guide (Basic)

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First thing you need to do is locate your mod folder. This is where you placed that new 'addons' folder in the last guide (e.g. 'CStrike', 'DOD' etc). Once you are in that folder you should see another folder called 'cfg'. Go into the 'cfg' folder.

You might see a couple of files one of which is called game.cfg, these can be ignored. 		 
Next open notepad which can be found on most computers by going to your Start Menu, then Accessories and then click 'Notepad'.  

Now, enter nothing into notepad, just click 'File' 'Save As..', a box will come up, you need to follow the previous instructions and find that CFG folder again.

Assuming you have changed the notepad dialog so you are now in CFG you should have noticed the contents have disappeared.

There is a box at the bottom of the dialog called 'Save As Type', click the 'Text Documents (.TXT)' and change it to 'All Files'. [See Picture]

If done correctly you should now be able to see the contents of the folder in the top window (game.cfg etc).

 

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Now, in the 'FileName' box, you should have nothing. If there is something then remove whatever is in there. Type in 'server.cfg', no capital letters, exactly.

After you have done that click 'SAVE'

 

You should now have an empty notepad window, the title should read "server.cfg - Notepad". You will also have a file in the cfg folder called 'server.cfg'.

Now you need to enter some information into that file for each admin you want on your server.

The format is like this

admin_user "SteamID/IP" 3

One per line.

The 'admin_user' bit is always just that, no capital letters or spaces and that includes no spaces before the 'admin'. The steamID bit is unique for each admin you add. You can get this by looking at 'status' (console command) when they are in game. You can also use their IP address, this can be looked up by doing the admin_status command from the game or server console.

A steam ID should look something like this - STEAM_0:0:43933 -. You should note that the 'SteamID' is in " " in the above example. That is _very_ important. You MUST place " " around the SteamID, if you forget the command will print an error and admin will not be given.

The number at the end, in the above example '3', is the level the admin gets, this means what commands they can do..

Here is a list of all the levels (0 to 3). Each level gets all the commands for the lower levels (level 1 gets all of level 0s commands as well as its own).

*Lowest Access (Non-Admin)*

-- Level 0 (Non-Admin, Normal Player)
admin_help
admin_who

-- Level 1 (Basic admin)
admin_kick
admin_map
admin_slay
admin_status
admin_restrict
admin_unrestrict
admin_stuff

-- Level 2 (More access)
admin_ban
admin_clexec

-- Level 3 (Full Admin)
admin_user
admin_svexec

*Highest Access (Full Admin)*

You can not setup admins that use a password or name/clan-tag for their login. You can only use their SteamIDs.

Examples:
admin_user "STEAM_0:1:29393" 1
admin_user "STEAM_1:0:3939" 3

[There is a single-space between admin_user, the SteamId and another between the SteamID and the level]

In the above examples I created two new admins, one with full admin (level 3) and another with basic admin (level 1). Their SteamIDs had " " around them.

IP Example:
admin_user "192.0.0.1" 3

You will need to change map or restart the server in order for the admins in your server.cfg to get added.

You can also make new admins from the server console if you have access. If you have level 3 access you can also do it in-game.

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