Allowing (non-GM) access to a locked server

[Drajor]

This post highlights a decent project for someone. A more robust access/privilege system as single number is a little restricting.

In this case, locked bypass could just be a flag in the account table. It would allow people to run closed testing etc without needing to worry about what the effects of changing 'status' will have.

[tdheysus2k]

thanks for the suggestions, ill try things out tonight when I get home. I'll report back what works.

[Tdheysus]

I tried the above suggestions, and none of them seem to work. Its possible that I just didn't implement them correctly. However, I did settle on a work-around, I hope it isn't cringe-worthy.

thru troubleshooting, I was able to see that an account needed a status of 100 in order to bypass the 'locked' server. So I re-assigned all GM commands that were under 100, to a value above 100. (I did this in a way that is easily restored if needed).

Then flagged some TEST user accounts as status 100. These accounts can now bypass the locked server, without having the ability to execute those GM commands.

I am still developing the server and haven't run into any issues with the work-around as of yet.

[Maze_EQ]

Isn't there a line in the eqemuconfig.xml that states the access level?