The owner guide: Giving OP

Published Jul 9th, 2012, 7/9/12 10:58 am

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Hello dear Planet Minecrafters owners of minecraft servers,

I will start a small guide to owners and creators of minecraft servers, today's special is "OP" and how you should use it correctly!

OP>RANKS

The "fast" way to setup your staff on your server is by giving every staff member OP, we all know that, but it might not be the safest way to do such, since all of them are ranked in the same line, for the server, all of them have the same rights over each other. This is a common error and that's why I write this post, OP's are (For the server at least) all people that have access to the console and that OPerates the server, so a "moderator" in this kind of "ranking" system (in which everyone is OP) can ban the owner without any complaints by the server (no, the console doesn't know how to diferenciate between a moderator and his beloved owner if both have OP)

Now, the "best" way to setup your staff is by using a rank system with a permissions plugin such as GroupManager (part of Essentials suite) PermissionsEX (PEX) bPermissions or similar. To decide which permissions plugin you should use, try checking with all the plugins you have installed and see if they are all compatible with your permissions manager. I've used GroupManager on my server and i've got not much troubles so far.

The ranks

If you opted for the "best" way to setup your staff, using a rank system, then the work might get harder, you have to choose between the plugins you have, the ranks you have in mind and which permissions go to each one.
This is probably the hard part of setting up a server (that's why most of the people jumps it) because for more plugins you have, more lines of "code" you have to setup.
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The most common rank system I've seen so far is this:

Owner --> All permissions and ranked above of the Co-Owner (inherits him/her) in order to controll him/her
Co-Owner --> All permissions but ranked BELOW of the owner, so that he can't ban/kick or mess with him/her
Admin --> All permissions of essentials and fun plugins but restricted on block loggers and such (so that he can't delete the logs)
Senior Moderator --> BanIP, Change his gamemode, Teleport freely to anyone, vanish himself and permissions like such ONLY for himself
Moderator --> Ban, kick, mute, jail, TPA (which is also allowed to normal players) and fly around

Each rank inherits the rank below, so that it gets all the permissions from it and also has "power" over it.

What if I decide to give everyone "OP"?

An operator can do the following:

Ban everyone (including other operators and such)
Stop the server
Clear logs from block loggers
Rollback the server to a "default" state
Grief with worldedit or even by hand using lava and creative mode
OP ANYONE that he wants
Delete schematics (the most common way to save stuff)
Be a griefing god.
Much, MUCH more!

So, if you wanna run the risk, be my guest, I just wanted to warn you.
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Tags	Minecraft Article Server Tutorial Guide Game Plugins Permissions Creation Owner Admin Rank

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Update #1 : by copherfield 07/09/2012 6:16:52 pmJul 9th, 2012

Updated the images, I actually decided to work a bit more on this since the community loved it so much :P

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01/24/2013 7:42 am

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kapsionor

WHAT IS IP???

07/17/2012 10:54 am

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Lol_Nyan_Cat

brilliant

07/16/2012 12:18 pm

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DeadSpaceDUde

coherfield. I never said anything. post to the people who rant on you.

07/11/2012 9:07 pm

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over a diamond stack

07/11/2012 9:38 pm

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copherfield

YAY! I'm rich!
Sadly, my other blog didn't count with the same luck :/
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07/11/2012 5:18 pm

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SuperEvan200

Thanks. I knew this, but it is very important and helpful, diamond for you!

07/11/2012 5:06 pm

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copherfield

Almost a diamond stack :)

07/11/2012 2:22 pm

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BigSteve

Hey I think your info is a little outdated. There's a plugin out now called Grief Prevention that almost entirely eliminates the need for server admins. I've been running a public 20-slot server (it's often full) for 7 months now, and I've never even seriously considered bringing on a second administrator. The plugin makes griefing impossible, provided players do the bare minimum of claiming their land. Even on a much bigger server, I'd think additional admins would only be necessary for ejecting trolls from the chat.

So I guess what I'm saying is, you could open the article by suggesting that folks get that plugin, so that they can start by not needing many admins in the first place, so many server owners won't even need to think about managing permissions unless their server grows huge.

Thanks for the effort. :) There are a lot of bad server owners out there, and players pay the price.

07/11/2012 2:50 am

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coolo_1

Nice, still need to set up the config with ranks above each other, but I have needed to do that since last year :P To anyone who "could not be bothered to read" just don't OP anyone but yourself,and only give permissions to players you trust, and only permissions that cannot interfere with you or the server.

07/11/2012 3:11 pm

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The owner guide: Giving OP

Seccond guide now available! read it here! http://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/tog-survive-a-griefer-infestation-contest-d/

I will start a small guide to owners and creators of minecraft servers, today's special is "OP" and how you should use it correctly!

OP>RANKS

The ranks

What if I decide to give everyone "OP"?

Seccond guide available! click here to check it out! http://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/tog-survive-a-griefer-infestation-contest-d/

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