How Do I Set A Server Password?

Tomper

<div class="IPBDescription">Probably easy as pie but...</div> Hi,

Quick newbie question: how do I set a password for my HLDS server? I've tried to understand how to use the sv_password setting but I can't seem to get it right.

What should I enter, and where? In the commandline? In the server.cfg?

Thankful for your help,

/Tomper

Pebbles-TPF

use rcon if you do not have adminmod or amx installed.

in the console type:
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rcon_password <your rcon password>
rcon sv_password "<your server password here>"
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it can also go into the server.cfg file to create a permanent server password.

//edit: had confusing password references

Lightning_Blue

With adminmod, you can use the following commands:

To set a password:

<b>admin_pass <i>password</b></i>

To remove a password:

<b>admin_nopass</b>



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verbose

It's just another CVAR, so as Pebbles said, you can set it in your server config, via rcon, or in the server console. To remove the password, specify an empty set of quotes:

sv_password ""

You could probably also do it via the command line using +sv_password "foobar" (untested)