usergroup problem

[Ratatosk]

uhh in my server i have a user group im on and it has flag master and flag mod allong with many other permissions given. but the important part is it says it is loading my file no problem but i dont get any privleges without typeing in my password

when i say: /flag give ratatosk wg i get

ratatosk you do not have flag mod permission

even though i do.

any help? thanks in advance

[Bambino]

You need to have the

-groupdb "/path/to/groupdb.txt"

in the groupdb.txt you will have the group names and the perms in them.

example

BAM.ADMIN: ban kick requireidentify setvar kill antikick antiban antikill veto
BAM.JRADMIN: *BAM.ADMIN -ban +shortban -antikick

that is something what you should have in your groupdb.txt

When it doubt, read the wiki

[Ratatosk]

yes i know this...like i said previously: the file is loading fine but for whatever reason... the file isnt working

[joevano]

post it so we can see...

[Ratatosk]

here is my file for group privleges i hope you can give me a hand

[allejo]

I never tried the group file as a .bzw but i think its not supposed to be a .bzw, the most common extension server owners use is a .txt. so instead of usergroups.bzw it should usergroups.txt

[Ratatosk]

i see thanks for the tip...i'll give it a shot

uhh no this doesnt seem to be helping

[blast]

What do you see when you run the /grouplist command on your server?

[Ratatosk]

when i do that i get:
corgi.users
corgi.members
corgi.owner
Everyone
local.admin
verified

if it knows its there why doesnt it work?

[allejo]

Ah im not sure if this is still a trouble. but when the forums changed to phpbb3 there was a trouble with groups on all servers. the way to fix it was to change the name of the group to all CAPS in both the forums and the groupfile. By default the group should be all caps in the forums. Try changing the name of the groups in the file to all caps and see if that works.

[blast]

Okay, here's a couple other things to check.

Run a /showgroup and see what groups you see. That will list groups that you are a member of.

Also make sure you are running a public server and that it shows up on the list publically. Check on here to see if you see your server: http://my.bzflag.org/db/?action=LIST

If you don't see it there, then your server is not on the list, thus you won't get authentication or global groups.

[Ratatosk]

oh i see...well would a localhost server show up on the list server? i'm only running it as a test on my computer and dont know if thats the problem

uhh according to the list my server is in fact not listed...however i dont know how long it would recognize my server was added because i started it only now that i am posting this

[blast]

A server that is not using the public list will not support authentication, and therefore won't support global groups.

[Ratatosk]

i see well your on to something because my test computer doesnt ever go to the list server...so i suppose ill check in again if it doesnt work when i put it on my server that connects to the list