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How to Become Admin on Your DayZ Server

DayZ

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Feb 9, 2025

Adding yourself as an Admin on your DayZ server is a great way to have better control over your server. It gives you access to all console commands and allows you to ban or kick players should you need to.

Adding Yourself as an Admin

You can become an admin by using the admin password found in your server config file.

1:

Access your control panel and Stop the server.

2:

Navigate to the Files tab.

3:

Locate and open the serverDZ.cfg file.

4:

Locate passwordAdmin = " "; and add your desired password between the quote marks.

5:

Click Save and Restart your server.

6:

Join your server and open the in-game chat by pressing enter and type #login password.

Server Admin Commands

CommandDescription

#login password

Log in as the Admin of the server.

#logout

Admin log out.

#mission filename Difficulty

Select the mission with known name and set the difficulty - the difficulty parameter is optional and, if not set, the current difficulty is kept.

#missions

Select a mission.

##restart

Restart a mission.

#reassign

Start all over and reassign roles.

#shutdown

Shuts down the server.

#restartserver

Restarts the server.

#shutdownserveraftermission

Once the mission ends, the server is shut down.

#restartserveraftermission

Once the mission ends, the server is restarted.

#init

Reload server config file loaded by -config options.

#exec ban Name

#exec ban ID

#exec ban #Player

Allows you to ban a player.

#kick Name

#kick ID

#kick #Player

Allows you to kick a player from the server.

#monitor (interval in seconds)

Shows you server performance information. If the interval is 0, the monitoring stops.

#monitords (interval in seconds)

Show the performance information on the server console. If the interval is 0 the monitoring stops.

#debug off

Disables debugging.

#debug (interval in seconds)

The default interval is 10 if no other interval is selected.

#debug (command) (param)

There are a few available commands:

  • JIPQueue

  • userQueue

  • checkFile

  • totalSent

  • userSent

  • userInfo


You can disable each command by adding the parameter off after each command. e.g. #totalSent off. The output differs between these commands. Some will output to the log file, others to screen, etc.

Please notice that you will need some debugger capable of catching OutputDebugString running on the client machine.

#debug (command)

Admin log out.

#logout

There are two available commands:

  • console - Sends what is in the server console to the sender.

  • von - Outputs in logFile defined in server.cfg, e.g. logfile could be named “server_console.log”


You will see a confirmation of these commands in the chat channels.

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Jay Miller

Game Experience Engineer @ Shockbyte