Roles, passwords and administration

Enshrouded has no admin list based on Steam IDs: permissions are granted through role groups. Each group has its own password, and the password a player enters when joining the server decides their group.

The three default groups

By default, enshrouded_server.json contains three groups in the userGroups section:

Group	Who for?	Usual permissions
Admin	You and your co-admins	Kick and ban, access inventories, edit and extend bases
Friend	Trusted friends	Build and edit bases with you, based on the permissions you grant
Guest	Visitors	Join and play with limited permissions, without touching your builds

Becoming an admin

1. Stop the server from the Game Panel Console (game.yorkhost.fr)
2. Open enshrouded_server.json in the Files tab
3. In the Admin group, replace the password value with a strong password
4. Save, then start the server
5. In game, join the server and enter the Admin group password

{
  "name": "Admin",
  "password": "AStrongAdminPassword",
  "canKickBan": true,
  "canAccessInventories": true,
  "canEditBase": true,
  "canExtendBase": true,
  "reservedSlots": 0
}

A different password for each group

Use three different passwords. If the Admin and Guest groups share the same password, you no longer control who gets which permissions. Only share the Admin password with people you trust to moderate the server.

No admin console

Enshrouded doesn't offer admin commands to type into the panel console. The Console is used to start and stop the server and read its logs; moderation happens in game, with an account logged into the Admin group.

Permissions for each group

Each group accepts the following keys (check the names in your file, they may change with the version):

Key	Purpose
name	Group name
password	Password that grants access to this group
canKickBan	Can kick and ban players
canAccessInventories	Can open chests and base inventories
canEditBase	Can edit existing builds
canExtendBase	Can extend bases' building area
reservedSlots	Number of slots reserved for this group

true / false values are written without quotes. For example, you can:

• give your friends canEditBase: true but canExtendBase: false to keep control over base expansion;
• set every permission to false for the Guest group, so visitors can't touch your builds.

Reserved slots

reservedSlots keeps slots free for a group, even when the server is nearly full. For example, with slotCount at 16 and reservedSlots at 2 for the Admin group, two slots remain available for admins. The total of reserved slots must stay below slotCount.

Adding or removing a group

You can remove a group (for example Guest for a strictly private server) or add one, following the same structure. Mind the JSON syntax: a comma separates each group, with no comma after the last one. See Configure enshrouded_server.json.

Kicking and banning a player

Once logged in with the Admin group password (or a group with canKickBan set to true):

1. Open the in-game menu and bring up the player list
2. Select the player
3. Choose kick or ban

The exact location of these options may vary with the game version.

An unwanted player knows a password?

Change that group's password in enshrouded_server.json (with the server stopped), restart, then share the new password only with trusted players.

What's next?

• Configure enshrouded_server.json: name, slots and difficulty
• Troubleshooting: password refused, wrong permissions