Configuring AMX Mod X

Admins (non-SQL)

First, open the amxmodx/configs/users.ini file with your favorite text editor. Scroll to the bottom. Admin entries are stored with four options: Authentication, Password, Access Right, Connection Properties.

In the early days of Half-Life 1 it was common to have admins authenticate by name. However, now it is recommended to auth by steamid. An example of a typical admin entry is:

"STEAM_0:0:123456" "" "abcdefghijklmnopqrstu" "ce"

Entries are one-per-line, and each of the four options are space separated, contained in double-quotes. This one means:

1. The user has SteamID STEAM_0:0:123456
2. The user has no password (steamid-authentication)
3. Access rights are levels a through u
4. The user is a steamid ("c") and has no password ("e")

It is also possible to authenticate by username:

"BAILOPAN" "mypass" "abcdefghijklmnopqrstu" "a"

To authenticate, BAILOPAN would put this in his client's autoexec.cfg, where "_pw" is the value of "amx_password_field" in amxx.cfg.

setinfo "_pw" "mypass"

For information on what access levels mean, see AMX Mod X Access Levels.

Note: Note: It is important that you do not use the 'z' flag for admins.

Admins (SQL)

First, make sure you have mysql_amxx enabled in AMX Mod X's amxmodx/configs/modules.ini file.

Then, open amxmodx/configs/sql.cfg and edit the cvars accordingly:

CVAR	Default Setting	Purpose
amx_sql_host	"127.0.0.1"	IP address of SQL server.
amx_sql_user	"root"	Username to connect to the SQL server.
amx_sql_pass	""	Password to connect to the SQL server.
amx_sql_db	"amx"	Database to use on the SQL server.
amx_sql_table	"admins"	The table to use for the admin_sql plugin.