Adding Admins to Your CS2 Server

Learn how to add admins and configure admin permissions on your CS2 dedicated server using CounterStrikeSharp.

One of the biggest struggles we've seen with new CS2 server owners is setting up admin permissions on their new server. At XGamingServer, we've made it so our panel will take care of creating all the admin and group files that are needed.

Automatically Setting Up Admins

This is the fastest way of setting up admins in CS2. This will set all the player flags to @css/root and add them to the #css/admin group. In most cases, this means they will have access to everything.

Get Your SteamID64

Make sure Enable Modding is turned on. Get the link to your Steam profile, and input it into https://steamid.io/. Copy your steamID64.

Open Startup Settings

Access the XGamingServer Panel and click on your CS2 server. In the sidebar, click on Startup.

Add Your SteamID64

Look for Admin SteamID64s and paste your ID there. You can add multiple admins by adding a comma between each SteamID64, like this: 76561197990711958,76561198034202275

Restart Your Server

Restart your server to apply the changes.

📝 Note: You cannot manually edit admins.json using this method. You can add custom flags to admin_groups.json if needed for specific plugins. Please see the Advanced Settings below if you need to set up custom permissions.

Now you can install an admin management plugin such as CS2 Simple Admin, and it will work out of the box.

Advanced Settings

If you would rather manually edit your admins.json and admin_groups.json for multiple groups or fine control over admins, you will need to leave Admin SteamID64s blank. Doing this means our Game Panel will no longer edit these files at all (other than renaming admin_groups.example.json to admin_groups.json once).

Editing admins.json: https://docs.cssharp.dev/docs/admin-framework/defining-admins.html Editing admin_groups.json:: https://docs.cssharp.dev/docs/admin-framework/defining-admin-groups.html