How to Add Admins to a TF2 Server

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

• 6

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

• 7

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

• 8

  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"

• 9

  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"

• 10

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