How to Add an Admin to Your Citadel Forged with Fire Server

Citadel Forged with Fire does not work with an admin list of SteamIDs but with an admin password: whoever logs in with that password in the game has admin rights. So you do not have to collect any IDs – you simply share the password with the people who should get admin rights.

Important

Out of the box every server uses the default password citadel123. Make sure to change it before your server is publicly reachable – otherwise anyone who knows this widely known password can grant themselves admin rights.

Set the admin password

1. Open the dashboard
   Open the dashboard of your server and switch to the settings.

2. Enter the password
   Enter your desired password in the field for the admin password.

3. Restart the server
   Save the change and restart your server so the new password is applied.

Set the password in the dashboard

The admin password is stored in Game.ini in the section [/script/citadel.socialmanager] under the value Password=. If your dashboard offers a field for it, your server can rewrite that value from the dashboard on startup – a change made directly in the file or in the game via /admin_update <new password> would then be overwritten again after the next restart. Therefore always set the admin password in the dashboard first and only use the file if there is no field for it there.

Warning

Anyone who knows the admin password has full admin rights on your server – including commands to kick, ban and delete characters. Only share it with people you trust, and use a different password than the join password of your server.

Log in as an admin

1. Join the server
   Join your server. See Join Server for how to find it.

2. Open the chat
   Open the chat window in the game.

3. Log in
   Enter the following command together with your admin password:

   /admin_login <password>

   Note

   The command /iamgod <password> does the same thing – it is just an alternative name for the same command.

4. Use your rights
   The admin commands are now available to you, for example /who for a list of all logged-in players.

Give up admin rights

If you want to drop your admin rights for the current session, enter the following in the chat:

/admin_logout

Note

Admin rights apply per session. After a lost connection or a server restart you have to log in again with /admin_login.

Use the Remote Console in the browser

As an alternative to the in-game chat you can run admin commands through the built-in Remote Console in your browser – handy when you are not in the game right now.

Allocate an additional port

The Remote Console needs its own port. Allocate an additional port for it in the dashboard. Without an allocated port the interface is not reachable from the outside.

1. Stop the server
   Stop your server via the dashboard.

2. Connect via SFTP
   Connect to your server via SFTP.

3. Open Game.ini
   Open the following file:

   /Config/Game.ini

4. Add the section
   Add the following section and set the additional port from your dashboard as WebServerPort:

   [/script/citadel.remoteconsole]
   WebServerPort=<additional port>
   WebServerUsername=<username>
   WebServerPass=<password>

5. Start the server
   Save the file and start your server.

6. Open the interface
   Open the IP address of your server together with the configured port in your browser:

   http://<server IP>:<port>

   Log in with the credentials you set above. Use list or help to show the available commands.

Warning

If you do not set any credentials, the defaults built into the server apply. Therefore always set your own username and password before you expose the port.

The configuration file looks cleaned up

On startup your server removes sections from the .ini that you have not modified. That is normal and not an error – your own entries are kept.

Where is the configuration?

The folder /Config/ and the path /Citadel/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/ point to the same files. You can use either way.

Tip

To learn which commands are available to you as an admin and how to remove players, see Kick & Ban Players.