How to Make Yourself Admin on Your Rust Server

Admin on a Rust server lets you fly, spawn items, teleport, and kick or ban players. Rust has two levels, owner and moderator, and both are granted by your Steam ID rather than your name. Here is how to find your ID and give yourself access.

1Find Your Steam ID

• Rust identifies players by a 17 digit SteamID64, not by their display name.
• Open your Steam profile in a browser. If the URL ends in a long number, that number is your SteamID64.
• If your URL is a custom name instead, paste it into any SteamID lookup site to get the 17 digit number, or find yourself in the panel console output after joining the server once.

2Grant Yourself Owner

• Log in to your game panel and click your Rust server.
• Make sure the server reads RUNNING on the Console page.
• Click the Type a command field below the console and run, with your own ID and name:

ownerid 76561198000000000 "YourName" "server owner"

• Then save it so it survives a restart:

server.writecfg

• ownerid is full admin. moderatorid uses exactly the same format and grants a smaller set of powers, which is what you want for people helping you run the server.

3Reconnect and Check

• Admin is applied when you connect, so leave the server and rejoin.
• Press F1 and type noclip. If you start flying, you have admin.
• The admin menu is F1 for commands, and on most servers F7 opens the report panel.

4Removing Admin

• Use removeowner 76561198000000000 or removemoderator 76561198000000000.
• Run server.writecfg again afterwards, or the change comes back on the next restart.

Good to Know

• Always run server.writecfg. Without it, admin is granted for the current session only and disappears the next time the server restarts. This is the single most common mistake.
• Admins are stored in a file. The list lives in server/<identity>/cfg/users.cfg, which you can edit in the file manager if you prefer. The server reads it at startup, so edit it while the server is stopped.
• Admin survives a wipe of the map. Wiping the world does not clear users.cfg, though wiping the whole server identity does.

Finished

You have admin on your own server. Set your server tags next so players filtering the browser can find you.