[1591] Has admin powers but has no admin tab

Unable to reproduce on Linux Debian with both Guard and non-Guard accounts. Used all kinds of combinations, i.e. seclevs and rcon password on it's own. Can't test on windows since playing on the same computer as the server automatically gives you admin and (fake) dev status.

Did he set up his seclevs properly? Did he fiddle around with the features of seclevs?

 

Vamist, tell him to try using /rcon /reloadsecurity this could fix it.
I tried to reproduce the issue, but nothing wrong occurred (even tho I remember that I faced that problem once before and I believe that I go it fixed with reloadsecurity.)

 

Did he add himself to the admin seclev or does he just login to rcon with the password?

 

I'm the one with the problem, you can see that by matching my name.

I've done some more tests:
1) I connected from another computer to the server, while being in the local network. After logging in with rcon, I did not get the admin menu.
2) I connected from that same computer, now while connected to my mobile hotspot, so outside the local network. When I connected to the server and rcon, I DID get the admin menu.
Both connection were made from the same steam account, using windows 10.

Therefore the problem has something to do with a local network connection (192.168.1.x ) and localhost (127.0.0.1 )

Regarding your question, I didn't touch the security levels, they should all have the default values.

 

Can't help you with why that's happening, but if you go to King Arthur's Gold/Security, open "superadmin.cfg.example" , write your username in there (so the second line says users = iarba; , save it as "superadmin.cfg" and rename "seclevs.cfg.example" to "seclevs.cfg" , you should always get the admin menu when logging on. You should also rename "normal.cfg.example" to "normal.cfg" to prevent other people from getting admin.
You can read up on seclevs in the wiki.

 

I tried doing what blackjoker told me, and it worked. ( thx a lot)




edit: there's still the problem of having to do this every time i open the game.

 

Ahh, you are using an rcon password. Add yourself to the super admin seclev.

 

After doing what HeX_ suggested, I still encounter the same problem. Even more, it appears the server can not find the seclevs.cfg file:





Once again i state this shouldn't be the main problem. Please consider the fact i don't get admin menu in a local area connection, but i do if I connect from outside. Connection were made using the same steam account, using rcon login. This means i do get admin menu with default security levels, but only outside the local network.

 

What I did:

1) Clearly I had corrupted game files, probably because I haven't played in a long time and the update protocol probably overlooked the ../ structure. I decided to uninstall and reinstall the game from steam. Please note that the steam uninstaller doesn't remove all files, particularly the ones that could have been a problem:


I manually deleted the containing folder for a clean uninstall.

2) I reinstalled KAG and went to modify the files once more. I found out that there are files, freshly installed, that still contained the ../ structure:


These also appear on the wiki article on how to set up a server and setting up security levels:
https://wiki.kag2d.com/wiki/Server
https://wiki.kag2d.com/wiki/Security_Levels
I know it's stated that these may be out of date, but such a big change to the engine should be included in the article.
I tried starting the server without deleting those and, as expected, it handled just as before, files not being found. I was still able to log in with rcon.

3) After deleting the ../ structure, I found another interesting feature: not being able to log in with rcon, even though all security levels had the login command included(or any for higher levels), including superadmin, which also had my name there.