How to Add an Admin to Your Soldat 2 Server

Soldat 2 has two ways to grant admin rights: a permanent admin via PlayFab ID and an RCON password that lets any number of players log in as admin in the game. There is no file-based admin list.

Note

The field for the permanent admin is singular – exactly one PlayFab ID can be stored per server. All further admins log in with the RCON password.

Set the permanent admin via PlayFab ID

Soldat 2 identifies players by their PlayFab ID, a 16-character hexadecimal string such as 9FD985AB3FE67850. A Steam ID is not used here.

Find the PlayFab ID

1. Start the server
   Start your server via the dashboard and open the server console there.

2. Join the server
   Connect to your server. How to do that is explained under Join Server.

3. Read the console output
   When you join, the server writes a line following this pattern:

   1 YOUR_NAME joined the server [9FD985AB3FE67850]

   The value in square brackets is the PlayFab ID.

4. Copy the ID
   Write down the ID exactly as it appears in the console.

Tip

You can find another player's PlayFab ID the same way – have them connect to your server once and read the matching line from the console.

Enter the PlayFab ID

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

2. Store the ID
   Enter the PlayFab ID into the admin field in the dashboard.

3. Start the server
   Start your server. The value is written into the autoconfig.ini on start:

   AdminPlayfabId=9FD985AB3FE67850

4. Join and verify
   Connect to your server. A red [Admin] tag appears behind your name in the scoreboard.

Important

The autoconfig.ini is completely rewritten when the server stops. Any change you write into the file while the server is running is lost in the process. Only edit the file while the server is stopped.

Warning

The values Name, Port, WebSocketsPort, WebSocketsRconPort, RconPassword, MaxPlayers, GreetMessage, AdminPlayfabId and ServerPassword are written from the dashboard into the autoconfig.ini on every server start. These values therefore belong in the dashboard, not in the file.

Spelling

You will find two spellings of this key online: AdminPlayfabId and AdminPlayfabID. What counts is the spelling that is already in your autoconfig.ini – keep it exactly as it is.

Further admins via the RCON password

For all further admins you use the RCON password. With it, any player can log in as admin directly in the game.

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

2. Set the password
   Enter your own long password into the RCON password field in the dashboard.

3. Start the server
   Start your server.

4. Log in inside the game
   Open the console in the game and log in:

   rcon YourRconPassword

Important

A default password is set out of the box. Make sure to change it – anyone who knows the RCON password has full control over your server.

The in-game console

1. Open the console
   Press Alt + ~ in the game.

2. Enter a command
   Commands that affect the server are prefixed with rcon:

   rcon listplayers

3. List commands
   Pressing Tab shows the available commands and completes your input.

Note

Commands are not case sensitive. rcon ListPlayers and rcon listplayers do the same thing.

Admin commands at a glance

Command	Description
rcon info	Show information about the server
rcon listplayers	Show all players with their IDs
rcon listmaps	Show available maps
rcon version	Show the server version
rcon say "<text>"	Send a message to everyone. With a leading ID only to one player: rcon say 2 "text"
rcon addbot	Add a bot
rcon rembot	Remove a bot
rcon setteam <id> <team>	Move a player into a team
rcon kick <id>	Disconnect a player from the server
rcon kickall	Disconnect all players from the server
rcon ban <id>	Ban a player for a limited time
rcon vote	Start a vote
rcon restart	Restart the current round
rcon nextmap	Switch to the next map
rcon loadmap <mapname> <gamemode>	Load a specific map with a game mode
rcon loadcycle <file>	Load a map cycle
rcon addmodifier <name>	Enable a modifier
rcon removemodifier <name>	Disable a modifier
rcon reload	Recompile and reload the scripts
rcon restartserver	Restart the server
rcon get <variable>	Print the value of a variable
rcon set <variable> <value>	Set the value of a variable

Change settings while the server is running

With set and get you change values without stopping the server. This works for configuration variables as well as for rule values:

rcon set FillBotsCount 5

rcon set Match.MinimumPlayers 4

Warning

Changes made with set only apply to the running session. On the next server start the values from the dashboard and the autoconfig.ini apply again.

Tip

To learn how to remove players from your server as an admin, see Kick & Ban Players.