How to Add Admins to a TF2 Server

With administrative rights, you and your friends can manage your TF2 server from within.

If you are hosting or running a server for Valve Software's multiplayer team-based shooter "Team Fortress 2," you may want to give your trusted friends administrative rights so that they can manage it in your absence. Admins can kick and ban disruptive players, change the current level, lock the server and more with the remote-control password. If you have installed the SourceMod server modification, you can give specified players these privileges automatically without the need for a remote-control password.

Instructions

Remote Control Admins

1. Navigate to the "tf/cfg" directory of your server's game files.

2. Open "server.cfg" with a text-editing program such as NotePad. Depending on your server's host, you may be able to access the "server.cfg" from your host website's interface.

3. Change the "set rconpassword" console variable to the password of your choice. For example:
   set rconpassword "myServerPassword".

4. Save the changes to your "server.cfg" and restart your server with the "restart" console command.

5. Share your server's rcon password with those whom you wish to serve as admins. They need only open their consoles and type "rcon_password 'myServerPassword'" to gain remote-control access to your server. To execute a server command via remote control after logging in, precede the command with "rcon". For example:
   rcon changelevel CTF_2fort
   rcon kick "John Smith"

SourceMod Admins

1. Navigate to the "tf/addons/sourcemod/configs" directory of your server's game files.

2. Open "admins_simple.ini" with a text-editing program such as NotePad.

3. Add a new line for each admin. You will need either their SteamIDs, which they can find by entering any game server and typing "status" in console, their IP addresses or their in-game gamer tags. For example:
   "STEAM_0:1:123456"
   "!123.0.0.1"
   "John Smith"

4. Next to each admin's identification, specify their rank in the admin ladder and their admin rights in the format of "rank:rights." The admin with the lower numerical rank will have the right to kick an admin of a higher numerical rank. An admin rights specification of "a" gives the admin a reserved slot on the server; "b" gives him generic privileges such as kick and ban; and "z" gives him all rights to the server. For example:
   "STEAM_0:1:123456" "1:z"
   "!123.0.0.1" "99:a"
   "John Smith" "2:b"

5. Save the changes to your "admins_simple.ini" and restart your server with the "restart" console command.

Tips & Warnings

• Other common SourceMod rights specifications include "c" for kicking, "d" for banning, "e" for unbanning and "f" for slaying. To give an admin multiple rights without giving them every right, use multiple letters. For example:

• "STEAM_0:1:123456" "1:abcd"

• If you add a SourceMod admin with only his gamer tag, specify a password in the same line in "admins_simple.ini" so that another player with the same tag cannot access your admin's rights. For example:

• "John Smith" "2:b" "mySourceModPassword"