How to Add an Admin to your Left 4 Dead 2 Server

Left 4 Dead 2 Administrators have access to a range of commands that will help run your server, ranging from healing players and making server-wide announcements to kicking and banning troublesome players. Administrators are only available for servers with SourceMod enabled. A list of admin commands can be found at this wiki here.

Obtaining your SteamID

In order to add an Administrator you will first need to know their SteamID, this can easily be done using SteamID I/O.

  1. Navigate to the SteamID website.
  2. Enter your Steam Profile URL or Steam Username then click lookup.
  3. Make a note of the steamID.

Adding an Administrator

Once you have obtained a player's SteamID, you are able to easily add them as a server Administrator by adding it to your server's admins_simple.ini file.

  1. Access your control panel and Stop your server.
  2. Go to Files > FTP File Access.
  3. Enter your Multicraft Password then click Login.
  4. Navigate to left4dead2/addons/sourcemod/configs.
  5. Click Edit next to admins_simple.ini.
  6. Enter your SteamID in the following format: "SteamID" "99:z" at the end of the file.
  7. Click Save then Start your server.

If you would like any additional information on how to configure your server, you can find our other Left 4 Dead 2 articles here.

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Mitchell Smith

Managing Director @ Shockbyte

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