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How to add admins to your Rust server

Admins on a Rust server can use admin commands in game: keep the server clean of players who break your rules, but also teleport, spawn items and more. A full list of Rust server commands is on the Rust wiki.

Admin roles​

Rust has two admin roles:

  • Owner (ownerid): full admin rights in game, including every console command and adding other admins.
  • Moderator (moderatorid): can kick, ban and use admin tools in game, but not every console command. Moderators can't add other admins.

You add an admin by their SteamID64: a 17-digit number that starts with 7656119. It's in the address of their Steam profile when it looks like https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198000000000. If their profile address uses a custom name (/id/...), look up the SteamID64 with a site such as steamid.io.

Method 1: The Players tab​

  1. Open the Fragnet dashboard, go to My servers and select your Rust server.
  2. Select the Players tab. If you don't see it in the tab row, look under More.
  3. In the Owners and moderators card, paste the SteamID64 or the steamcommunity.com/profiles/ link into SteamID64 or profile link.
  4. Next to it, pick Moderator or Owner.
  5. Select Add.
  6. Optionally fill in Player name (optional) and Reason (optional), then select Make owner or Make moderator.
  7. Ask the player to reconnect to the server to get the new role.

If the server is running, the change is made right away through the console. If it's offline, it's saved to the server's files and applies when the server starts.

Players who are online are listed under Online now. Open the ⋯ menu on their row and select Make owner or Make moderator to give them a role directly. To take a role away, open the ⋯ menu on the player in Owners and moderators and select Remove admin rights.

The Bans card on the same tab works the same way: paste a SteamID64 and select Ban player, or use Ban, Kick and Unban in the ⋯ menus.

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The Players tab talks to your server over Web RCON. If it says that Web RCON is off, turn on Web RCON on the Configuration tab, under General > RCON and Rust+, and restart the server.

Method 2: The console​

  1. Start the server and open the Console on the Overview tab. See Send a command.

  2. To add an owner, send these two commands:

    ownerid 76561198000000000 "optional username" "optional reason"
    server.writecfg

    To add a moderator:

    moderatorid 76561198000000000 "optional username" "optional reason"
    server.writecfg

    server.writecfg saves the change to users.cfg, so it's kept after a restart.

  3. Ask the player to reconnect to get the new role.

You can send the same commands from RCON tools such as RustAdmin. They need your server's address, the RCON port and the RCON password, all on the Configuration tab under General > RCON and Rust+.

Method 3: Edit users.cfg​

Owners and moderators are stored in users.cfg, in the folder server/rust/cfg/. If you changed your server identity, the file is in server/<identity>/cfg/ instead.

  1. Stop the server with Shut down at the top of the server page. Rust writes this file itself, so changes made while it runs can be overwritten.

  2. On the Files tab, open server/rust/cfg/ and select users.cfg to edit it. If the file isn't there, create it with New file. See Edit a file.

  3. Add one line per admin:

    ownerid SteamID64 "optional username" "optional reason"
    moderatorid SteamID64 "optional username" "optional reason"

    For example:

    ownerid 76561198000000001 "Fragnet" "Server owner"
    ownerid 76561198000000002 "Fragnet2"
    moderatorid 76561198000000003 "Fragnet3" "Great helper"
    moderatorid 76561198000000004 "Fragnet4"

  4. Select Save file, then start the server.

users.cfg also appears on the Configuration tab as "Owners and moderators", with a link to the Players tab, where the list is easier to manage.