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How to Become Admin on your SCP: Secret Laboratory Server

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In this guide we are going to go over how you can add yourself or someone else as an admin to your SCP Secret Laboratory server. Adding yourself or someone else as an admin will allow the use of the Remote Admin functions built into the game to moderate or control your server.

Adding an admin

  1. Open your dashboard

  2. Locate your SCP server and click on the panel button.

  3. Once your panel, stop your server then navigate to your File Manager.

    Close-up of the Nodecraft control panel sidebar menu, showing the Server Files dropdown expanded with a red box highlighting the File Manager option.

  4. Once on the file manager, navigate to following folder: /.config/SCP Secret Laboratory/config/<ServerPort Number(Typically 7777)>/ .The Nodecraft File Manager displaying the directory path structure for an SCP: Secret Laboratory server, with a blue box highlighting the 7777 port folder and the config_remoteadmin.txt file visible in the right panel.

  5. Once in the config folder, open the file config_remoteadmin.txt by double clicking on it.

  6. For the next part you will need your SteamID64 which can be looked up on SteamID.net.

  7. Once on the website, enter your steam username and click lookup.
    A view of the SteamID.net website for converting and looking up Steam IDs

  8. Once looked up, your SteamID64 will appear in the box, copy that for the next step.

  9. Return to your file manager with the open config_remoteadmin.txt file.

  10. Once in the config_remoteadmin.txI file, locate Members section.
    A text editor displaying the contents of the config_remoteadmin.txt file for an SCP: Secret Laboratory server, with a red box highlighting the Members section where SteamID64s are assigned to owner and admin roles.

  11. If you want to add yourself as an admin, replace <SomeSteamID64> with the value you copied. And it should look like this.
    Close-up of the config_remoteadmin.txt file in the Nodecraft code editor, showing a SteamID64 formatted with

  12. Once you have added yourself or others as the desired permission group, click save changes in the upper right corner.
    Close-up of the Nodecraft code editor toolbar showing a red box highlighting the green Save Changes button next to Rename, Copy, Move, and Delete options.

  13. Start your server

Conclusion

You have now added yourself or others as an admin or moderator. WIth this you will now have access to the in-game remote admin menu to control and moderate your server.

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