Hello server admins,
My post here is about a Mod that i'm creating for UnrealTournament that i call SemiAdmin. It is about 65% done.
You are probably wondering what SemiAdmin is and you may already have a part of the answer because the name sounds like something you could want.
How many times did you find yourself worrying about giving your administrator password to complete strangers because they wanted to have a scrimmage or a clan match on your server. Then, once they started, you have to hang around in case they need a map change or some feature added/removed. Your server is now back to free play and you connect to the web admin and start looking at the logs and you see many messages about that guy which is cheating, that's if the server is not already empty because players left. Or you start receiving complains about a player that just idles on the server because he had to go eat and forgot to disconnect or he is just plainly not wanting to leave his spot on your server. Sounds Familiar ?
SemiAdmin is, in its essence, a delegation tool for server owners and administrators. It allows the server owner to manage a list of trusted player and assign to them, specific privileges for his server. Those privilege go from ability to kick or ban player up to the ability to manage the trusted SemiAdmin user list. I will list all the privileges that are available later in the post.
Now, you may ask, how does one get to be able to kick players if i didnt give him my admin password ? Its simple, he has to login using a username and password that you assigned to that trusted player. When you create his user account, you also decide which privileges the user has.
Here is the list of the privileges that you can (or will be able to) assign to the user accounts:
SemiAdmin has the advantage of being server side only, no download is required by the players. SemiAdmin is controlled using the 'mutate' command. It also has the advantage of being transparent to ngStats, so you do not have to fear about your server going in the MOD section of the stats.
You should now understand better what SemiAdmin is and can now decide if it is something that interests you.
All those who are interested about SemiAdmin can track the official SemiAdmin Forum at Midnight Interactive.
My post here is about a Mod that i'm creating for UnrealTournament that i call SemiAdmin. It is about 65% done.
You are probably wondering what SemiAdmin is and you may already have a part of the answer because the name sounds like something you could want.
How many times did you find yourself worrying about giving your administrator password to complete strangers because they wanted to have a scrimmage or a clan match on your server. Then, once they started, you have to hang around in case they need a map change or some feature added/removed. Your server is now back to free play and you connect to the web admin and start looking at the logs and you see many messages about that guy which is cheating, that's if the server is not already empty because players left. Or you start receiving complains about a player that just idles on the server because he had to go eat and forgot to disconnect or he is just plainly not wanting to leave his spot on your server. Sounds Familiar ?
SemiAdmin is, in its essence, a delegation tool for server owners and administrators. It allows the server owner to manage a list of trusted player and assign to them, specific privileges for his server. Those privilege go from ability to kick or ban player up to the ability to manage the trusted SemiAdmin user list. I will list all the privileges that are available later in the post.
Now, you may ask, how does one get to be able to kick players if i didnt give him my admin password ? Its simple, he has to login using a username and password that you assigned to that trusted player. When you create his user account, you also decide which privileges the user has.
Here is the list of the privileges that you can (or will be able to) assign to the user accounts:
- ability to kick players (like cheaters or idlers) (done)
- ability to ban players (mostly cheaters) (done)
- ability to change the map being played (done)
- ability to control the number of bots for the currently played map (does not persist) (done)
- ability to control gameplay settings like the maximum number of players or the game type (in progress)
- ability to setup the server for a ladder match.
- ability to add/remove/modify users. Also known as a user manager. (done)
SemiAdmin has the advantage of being server side only, no download is required by the players. SemiAdmin is controlled using the 'mutate' command. It also has the advantage of being transparent to ngStats, so you do not have to fear about your server going in the MOD section of the stats.
You should now understand better what SemiAdmin is and can now decide if it is something that interests you.
All those who are interested about SemiAdmin can track the official SemiAdmin Forum at Midnight Interactive.
