dihedral wrote:

for some further clarity: How do you set a spectating user to be an 'administrator'?

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timvdalen wrote:

I'd say something like:
'rcon "admin"'

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dihedral wrote:

I'd personally suggest to make use of the move command: rcon "move "
Where is that of your client. Then you can act as that company in full.

The thing is that spectators are not allowed to carry out docommands, which removing e.g. rails from a tile is.
Such actions are bound to a company id.

The move command, when executed on the server (i.e. via rcon) does not require the company password of the company you want to join. Hope this is a helpful solution.

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timvdalen wrote:

I just tried this, and even when executed via rcon, I still need a password to join a protected companies

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planetmaker wrote:

I can't confirm that. On our servers I can join any company fine without the company password, just using rcon move
That's the usual way we use to arbitrate and rectify things on our welcome server.

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timvdalen wrote:

Ah, I'm sorry. I used the join command rather than the move command.

I had a better idea though:
We could make a special company (like Spectators) with a fixed id (or either set in your config) that is locked with the rcon passwd.
The company would have infinite money (either that, or everything is free, but that would require more code changes, the way the code is now) and the ability to delete anything.

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dihedral wrote:

it will probably require the same amount of changes. and i am guessing it both will not happen.

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dihedral wrote:

a new feature allows further incoming connections on a separate network port. this network has been designed for 3rd party applications to control the server. you can write a program that connects to your dedicated server and provides access to any of the rcon commands which are executed directly on the server console - no rcon password is needed (nor the rcon command itself). you can then distribute this program to those you which to grant this control.

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andythenorth closed the ticket.

Reason for closing: Won't implement

Flyspray clean up: more than 5 years old, and not obvious what should be done with this next, so closing. If this offends, discuss with andythenorth in irc. Thanks.

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