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How to become a admin on Starbound Server

This guide will cover how to create an admin user on your server and how to log in as that user.

  1. Log in to the Kinetic Panel.

  2. Stop the server.

  3. Go to the file Manager.

  4. Navgaite to Storage > starbound_server.config.

  5. Locate "serverUsers"

  6. Add in the brackets the part below

    "<Username>": {
    
       "admin" : true,
    
       "password" : "<password>"
        
       }
    
  7. Change the password & username.

  8. Save the file & start the server.

  9. On joining the server, use the login created to log in as admin.

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