3. Remote Admin Config Setup

Remote Admin configs are server config files that define ranks and who they are given to. These documents are extremely sensitive and any mistake can cause certain parts of the game to misbehave. If you’re ever in a situation where certain parts of your config don’t seem to work properly, generating a fresh config is always an option. As a note, before starting, be sure that you don’t accidentally try and edit the old remote admin config template, still found on windows builds for LocalAdmin!

Assigning members to roles

Lets begin with the topmost section of the RA config, the role assignment section.

The topmost section of the remote admin config assigns specific roles you’ve created to members. 

The general format is:

 - 76561198801452050@steam: owner 

Take note of the space before and after the dash. Beyond that, the entry is comprised of a steam ID, followed by "@steam:", a space, and then the defined name of the role (in this case "owner").

One of the most common problems within Remote Admin config occurs when roles do not get assigned. This is typically caused by the existence of placeholder IDs, which are designed to show you how to format the config file. You need to remove any placeholder IDs for the config file to function.

Role properties

Let’s continue to the next section of the document, which defines the properties of the roles you create.

Config option	Description	Default value
owner_badge	This is a string of text that will appear in-game, as it does here. Certain special characters may create problems with a badge, causing it to not show up in-game	SERVER OWNER
owner_color	must be picked from a pre-defined list of colours. The list can be found below. Only colours marked as "server groups" can be used	red
owner_cover	sets whether the server badge will override global badges	true
owner_hidden	sets whether the badge will be hidden by default	false
owner_kick_power	How much kick power this rank has	255
owner_required_kick_power	How much kick power is needed to kick this rank	255

Role creation

Each role needs to be added to the “Role List”, in order for it to be readable by the config file.

Permission Nodes

This next section tends to get a bit messy, but the basic structure is quite simple. The Role Permissions section of the Remote Admin document defines what Remote Admin permissions each role has access to. For a complete list of all permission nodes, and how they work, see here.

• Permission nodes are notoriously sensitive and the exact format needs to be be followed. 

- AdminChat: [owner, sos, management, doa, headadmin, ethics, admin]

Once more it is crucial to note that the dash has a space before and after it. As well, there is a space after the permission node name (in this case, AdminChat: ). Finally, each role that is defined as having a permission node is followed by a comma, and then a space. This spacing and formatting is really sensitive on this part, and missing a comma or space can break entire roles.

Misc options

Config value	Description	Default value
allow_central_server_commands_as_ServerConsoleCommands	Allows running central server commands (they are prefixed with "!") using "sudo"/"cron" command in RA (requires ServerConsoleCommands permission). Don't turn on unless you fully trust all people with this permission, they need to run the commands from RA and you know what you are doing.	false
enable_predefined_ban_templates	Should the GUI-Based RA use the predefined ban templates	true

Predefined ban templates

Here you can define ban templates for your staff members to use in-game. This can always be overriden by choosing the "Custom" ban tab.

The format for creating ban templates goes as follows :-

- [SECONDS, Text]

Take note of the space, dash, space at the beginning.

You cannot have any commas in the reason or it will break the parsing.