🛡️ Giving yourself Admin on your Rust Server

Being admin is of course essential to operating and running your Rust server in this simple guide we'll go through everything you need to know!

This guide is of course meant for the base Rust admin privileges. Custom admin suites may have different permission systems.

🔎 Finding your Steam ID 64

We'll need your SteamID64 for this tutorial, this is used to identify you as an admin.

Visit SteamID Finder.
Enter your Steam Profile URL
Copy your SteamID64

📜 Giving yourself admin privileges through Console

This method is quick and easy allowing you to admin yourself instantly

Navigate to the Physgun Gamepanel and open Your Server
Using the Console in the gamepanel enter the following command:

ownerid <SteamID64> "<YourUsername>" "<Reason>"

Example:

ownerid 76561198074425791 "Lunaversity" "Server Owner"

ownerid gives full admin rights (basically superadmin)
To apply these changes, type:

server.writecfg

📄 Giving yourself admin privileges using users.cfg

This method lets you see the user list which contains everyone with elevated permissions.

Navigate to the File Manager
Locate the server/identity/cfg/users.cfg file & open it
Add your SteamID64 in the following format:

ownerid 76561198123456789 "AdminName" "Server Owner"

Click Save and then Restart your server.

✅ Verifying that you have admin privileges

Join your Rust Server
Open the in-game console ( F1 by default).
Type the following:

status

Check if your username is listed with (Owner) next to it.

🧪 Testing some admin commands

Spawn an item:

giveitem wood 1000

Teleport to another Player:

teleport "<Player>"

God Mode

god 1

If any one of these commands work then you have admin privileges!

❌ Removing admin privileges

Navigate to the Physgun Gamepanel and open Your Server
Using the Console in the gamepanel enter the following command:

removeowner <SteamID64>

To apply these changes, type:

server.writecfg

This will completely remove admin privileges.

Common Issues

"Permission Denied" Error: Ensure you typed server.writecfg after adding yourself as an admin.
Not Recongized as Admin: Restart the server and verify your SteamID64 is correct.

Updated on: 06/01/2025