How to manage TShock groups and permissions

TShock decides what each player may do by group. Create an account for a helper with user add, put it in a group with user group, and change what a group may do with group addperm and group delperm. Type the commands in game with a / in front, or in the panel Console without it.

You need to be owner first: How to become admin on your TShock server.

Accounts

TShock's own help lists these:

For example, in the Console, user group Alex followed by a group name from group list moves Alex's account into that group. Players can also make their own account in game with /register, then /login.

Groups

A group gets every permission of its parent group too. A new TShock server comes with groups including guest, default, vip, newadmin, admin, trustedadmin and owner, each one the parent of the next, so each has more rights than the one before. Type group list to see the groups your server has before you choose one.

Where to type

• In the panel Console: open the Console tab and type the command without /, for example group list. The Console has full rights.
• In game: type / and the command in chat, once you are logged in to an account whose group allows it.

Good to know

• Plugins add their own permissions. Their names are in each plugin's documentation.
• Groups and accounts are stored in TShock's database in the tshock folder, not in config.json.
• TShock's other options, such as spawn protection and who must log in: How to change TShock settings on your Terraria server.