How do I setup user permissions?

Hi guys, so i just got a server through multicraft and I'm not to sure how to set it up so that specific users are admins and other users are limited. I dont want my server to have 30 OPed ppl that can run around and do whatever they want. If i could i would like it so that theres a few with admin that are regulars and the normal users are limited. What file is it that i modify to do this? Also how would i go about typing that in? If anyone can maybe send me or copy in here an example of their file on what it should look like and how you type it up. I dont understand to well. Thanks for the help!

also, surver is running craft bukkit 1.4.6

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you need a permission plugin, first off.

 

Ok so i have set up PEX and i have followed the guide listed here to set up my permissions.yml
http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/bukkit-guide-permissionsex-pex.60312/

I'm not sure what is wrong with the coding buttheres a few things that don't work. a few of the /pex commands come back as internal errors and the listed users do not have their permissions. Also some permissions arent being inherited to the next groups. If someone has the time can they peek through my permissions file and see if i have errors. to my knowledge i have set it up correctly.

Code:

users:
    xichaoskingix
        group:
        - Admin
    oriolesfanvb
        group:
        - Admin
    burgermiester11
        group:
        - Admin
    tyler402
        group:
        - Co_Owner
    aj11727
        group:
        - Owner
groups:
    pvp:
        default: false
        permissions:
        - -'*'
        - modifyworld.bucket.*
        - modifyworld.blocks.*
        - modifyworld.items.*
        - modifyworld.damage.*
        - modifyworld.vehicle.*
        - -jobs.admin.*
        - -factions.money.withdraw.any
        - essentials.ignore
        - essentials.mail
        - essentials.mail.send
        - essentials.motd
        - essentials.msg
        - essentials.r
        - essentials.reply
        - essentials.rules
        - essentials.spawn
        - essentials.warp
        - factions.admin
        - factions.chat
        - factions.claim
        - factions.create
        - factions.deinvite
        - factions.description
        - factions.disband
        - factions.help
        - factions.home
        - factions.invite
        - factions.join
        - factions.kick
        - factions.leave
        - factions.list
        - factions.mod
        - factions.money.*
        - factions.money.balance
        - factions.money.balance.any
        - factions.money.deposit
        - factions.money.withdraw
        - factions.owner
        - factions.ownerlist
        - factions.power
        - factions.power.any
        - factions.relation
        - factions.sethome
        - factions.show
        - factions.tag
        - factions.title
        - factions.unclaim
    Grunt:
        default: true
        permissions:
        - essentials.money
        - essentials.sell all
        - factions.f leave
        - factions.f inv
        - factions.f join
        - factions.f create
        - essentials.tpdeny
        - essentials.tpaccept
        - essentials.tpa
        - essentials.rules
        - essentials.warp
        inheritance:
        options:
            rank: 500
        worlds:
            world_pvp:
                permissions: []
                inheritance:
                - pvp
                prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
            world_pvp_nether:
                inheritance:
                - pvp
                prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
            world_pvp_the_end:
                inheritance:
                - pvp
                prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
        prefix: '&9[Grunt]'
        suffix: ''
  Iron:
        default: false
        permissions:
        - modifyworld.bucket.*
        - modifyworld.blocks.*
        - modifyworld.blocks.place.*
        - modifyworld.blocks.interact.*
        - modifyworld.items.*
        - modifyworld.damage.*
        - modifyworld.vehicle.*
        - essentials.back
        - essentials.back.ondeath
        - essentials.clearinventory
        - essentials.delhome
        - essentials.help
        - essentials.home
        - essentials.ignore
        - essentials.mail
        - essentials.mail.send
        - essentials.motd
        - essentials.msg
        - essentials.r
        - essentials.reply
        - essentials.rules
        - essentials.sethome
        - essentials.spawn
        - essentials.tpaccept
        - essentials.tpdeny
        - essentials.warp
        inheritance:
        - Grunt
        options:
            rank: 300
        worlds:
            world_pvp:
                permissions: []
                inheritance:
                - pvp
                prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
            world_pvp_nether:
                inheritance:
                - pvp
                prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
            world_pvp_the_end:
                inheritance:
                - pvp
                prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
            world_creative:
                inheritance:
                - guest
        prefix: '&7[Iron]'
        suffix: ''
    Gold:
        default: false
        permissions: []
        inheritance:
        - Iron
        options:
            rank: 150
        worlds: []
        prefix: '&6[Gold]'
        suffix: ''
    Diamond:
        default: false
        permissions: []
        inheritance:
        - Gold
        options:
            rank: 50
        worlds: []
        prefix: '&1[Diamond]'
        suffix: ''
    Moderator:
        default: false
        permissions: []
        inheritance:
        - Diamond
        options:
            rank: 10
        worlds: []
        prefix: '[Mod]'
        suffix: ''
    Admin:
        default: false
        permissions:
        - '*'
        - colorme*
        - signshop*
        - worldedit*
        inheritance:
        - Moderator
        options:
            rank: '5'
        prefix: '&3[Admin] &f'
    Co_Owner:
        default: false
        permissions:
        - '*'
        inheritance:
        - Admin
        options:
            rank: '2'
        prefix: '&3[Co_Owner] &f'
    Owner:
        default: false
        permissions:
        - '*'
        inheritance:
        - Co_Owner
        options:
            rank: '1'
        prefix: '&3[Owner] &f'

Also, here is what is in the config file.

Code:

permissions:
  backend: file
  backends:
    file:
      file: permissions.yml
  superperms: {}

This was my first time setting up a permissions with such depth for a friends public server. So im pretty sure there is mitakes but im not sure where. any help?

 

Check out my PEX guide, a step by step explanation to set up permissions correctly =)

zip
(link is in my signature)

 

well that's the thing bud, i DID use your guide the best I could. To my knowledge i did everything it said to do.

 

Try looking up the PEX wiki, also available on their Github. Especially the 'Commands' page is really useful.

 

I'll give it a shot. not sure how much its gona help me. Im pretty sure that the user portion in the yml dosent work. and if you do a /pex command i dont think it works but when you hit enter liek the entire pex help list with all the pex commands pops up in chat after the command.

This comes up in the console for some reason. as you can see in a previous post my permissions isnt empty
10.01 02:01:14 [Server] Startup Done (2.884s)! For help, type "help" or "?"
10.01 02:01:14 [Server] INFO Server permissions file permissions.yml is empty, ignoring it
10.01 02:01:14 [Server] INFO v2.5.1Dev Enabled
10.01 02:01:14 [Server] INFO Vault's permissions not found, defaulting to OP

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If your using pex put your perms in the folder for pex!

 

Polar What do you mean? My PEX perms are with the PEX config file in server/plugins/pex. however i went to FTP file access and there is a Perms file in/server. when i delete it, it comes back. Im guessing there is a conflict between the pluging perms and the default perms? how is this fixed?

 

Wait did you also put the permissions.yml in the root of your server?

 

after going to PEX perms and (Copy pasting) the pex perms to the /server default perms file this comes up
10.01 02:18:48 [Server] Startup Done (2.838s)! For help, type "help" or "?"
10.01 02:18:48 [Server] INFO ^
10.01 02:18:48 [Server] INFO Iron:
10.01 02:18:48 [Server] INFO in "<reader>", line 102, column 4:
10.01 02:18:48 [Server] INFO expected <block end>, but found BlockMappingStart
10.01 02:18:48 [Server] INFO ^
10.01 02:18:48 [Server] INFO users:
10.01 02:18:48 [Server] INFO in "<reader>", line 1, column 1:
10.01 02:18:48 [Server] WARNING Server permissions file permissions.yml is not valid YAML: while parsing a block mapping
10.01 02:18:48 [Server] INFO v2.5.1Dev Enabled
10.01 02:18:48 [Server] INFO Vault's permissions not found, defaulting to OP.

I guess its rooting to that default file. but i dunno how to make it read PEX file.

yeah i've looked over it all and ive got no idea what to change to fix the root problem or the other stuff haha. sorry guys im new to it

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bump, still need input. how do i reroot and fix those errors?

 

check your spacing in the permissions.yml
you can't work with tab, you need to work with spaces and also need the correct number of spaces for yml-files.
Also post complete error log, what have you done now last ? copied the server permissions into pex permissions ?

 

The spacing is: "users" and "groups" are set to the far left, under those specified users and groups are 8 spaces in. under are the perms which are 8 also aligned with the previous. Right now my status is: Server default .yml is blank. PEX is disabled and it has the above permissions written. Pex perms arent rooting properly. And when i ENABLE the PEX pluggin no commands work. its as if the pluggin dosent load? as for the error log, its very short for some reason being on multicraft and thats the only code that comes up for perms. also if i type my perm.yml into a perser. this comes up as the errors. ERROR:

while parsing a block mapping
in "<unicode string>", line 1, column 1:
users:
^
expected <block end>, but found '<block mapping start>'
in "<unicode string>", line 102, column 4:
Iron:
^

 

your spacing is messed up. Everytime you need spacing, there should only be 2 spaces.
Example:
Users
->2Spaces Name

(dont write "->2Spaces" as word ^^)
you may parse your permissions.yml here: http://ess.khhq.net/yaml/
It will show an error an mark the line BEHIND the spacing error

 

Ok i will edit it now and make it 2 isnted of 4 spaces for all of those lines so it should be:

Users:
2space names
4space perms
yes?

 

yap, everytime you need to indent add 2 spaces

 

ok i fixed the spacing for the entire yml. every line had 2 spaces removed since i was going by 4. here is the code now

Code:

users:
  xichaoskingix:
      group:
      - Admin
  oriolesfanvb:
      group:
      - Admin
  burgermiester11:
      group:
      - Admin
  tyler402:
      group:
      - Co_Owner
  aj11727:
      group:
      - Owner
groups:
  pvp:
      default: false
      permissions:
      - -'*'
      - modifyworld.bucket.*
      - modifyworld.blocks.*
      - modifyworld.items.*
      - modifyworld.damage.*
      - modifyworld.vehicle.*
      - -jobs.admin.*
      - -factions.money.withdraw.any
      - essentials.ignore
      - essentials.mail
      - essentials.mail.send
      - essentials.motd
      - essentials.msg
      - essentials.r
      - essentials.reply
      - essentials.rules
      - essentials.spawn
      - essentials.warp
      - factions.admin
      - factions.chat
      - factions.claim
      - factions.create
      - factions.deinvite
      - factions.description
      - factions.disband
      - factions.help
      - factions.home
      - factions.invite
      - factions.join
      - factions.kick
      - factions.leave
      - factions.list
      - factions.mod
      - factions.money.*
      - factions.money.balance
      - factions.money.balance.any
      - factions.money.deposit
      - factions.money.withdraw
      - factions.owner
      - factions.ownerlist
      - factions.power
      - factions.power.any
      - factions.relation
      - factions.sethome
      - factions.show
      - factions.tag
      - factions.title
      - factions.unclaim
  Grunt:
      default: true
      permissions:
      - essentials.money
      - essentials.sell all
      - factions.f leave
      - factions.f inv
      - factions.f join
      - factions.f create
      - essentials.tpdeny
      - essentials.tpaccept
      - essentials.tpa
      - essentials.rules
      - essentials.warp
      inheritance:
        options:
          rank: 500
      worlds:
          world_pvp:
              permissions: []
              inheritance:
              - pvp
              prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
          world_pvp_nether:
              inheritance:
              - pvp
              prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
          world_pvp_the_end:
              inheritance:
              - pvp
              prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
      prefix: '&9[Grunt]'
      suffix: ''
  Iron:
      default: false
      permissions:
      - modifyworld.bucket.*
      - modifyworld.blocks.*
      - modifyworld.blocks.place.*
      - modifyworld.blocks.interact.*
      - modifyworld.items.*
      - modifyworld.damage.*
      - modifyworld.vehicle.*
      - essentials.back
      - essentials.back.ondeath
      - essentials.clearinventory
      - essentials.delhome
      - essentials.help
      - essentials.home
      - essentials.ignore
      - essentials.mail
      - essentials.mail.send
      - essentials.motd
      - essentials.msg
      - essentials.r
      - essentials.reply
      - essentials.rules
      - essentials.sethome
      - essentials.spawn
      - essentials.tpaccept
      - essentials.tpdeny
      - essentials.warp
      inheritance:
      - Grunt
      options:
          rank: 300
      worlds:
          world_pvp:
              permissions: []
              inheritance:
              - pvp
              prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
          world_pvp_nether:
              inheritance:
              - pvp
              prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
          world_pvp_the_end:
              inheritance:
              - pvp
              prefix: '&4[PvP] &f'
          world_creative:
              inheritance:
              - guest
      prefix: '&7[Iron]'
      suffix: ''
  Gold:
      default: false
      permissions: []
      inheritance:
      - Iron
      options:
          rank: 150
      worlds: []
      prefix: '&6[Gold]'
      suffix: ''
  Diamond:
      default: false
      permissions: []
      inheritance:
      - Gold
      options:
          rank: 50
      worlds: []
      prefix: '&1[Diamond]'
      suffix: ''
  Moderator:
      default: false
      permissions: []
      inheritance:
      - Diamond
      options:
          rank: 10
      worlds: []
      prefix: '[Mod]'
      suffix: ''
  Admin:
      default: false
      permissions:
      - '*'
      - colorme*
      - signshop*
      - worldedit*
      inheritance:
      - Moderator
      options:
          rank: '5'
      prefix: '&3[Admin] &f'
  Co_Owner:
      default: false
      permissions:
      - '*'
      inheritance:
      - Admin
      options:
          rank: '2'
      prefix: '&3[Co_Owner] &f'
  Owner:
      default: false
      permissions:
      - '*'
      inheritance:
      - Co_Owner
      options:
          rank: '1'
      prefix: '&3[Owner] &f'

EDIT: I fixed that line of code. now in the parser the entire yml comes out as its pasted in the input. input and output match

 

good, whats now happening when you start the server ?

 

I deleted PEX and reinstalled it to the server. now when i type /pex a huge white list of pex commands pops up. I cant use commands, literally /pex "anything" brings up a lot of random pex commands. so i know the plugin is working but im pretty sure the server isnt reading/rooting to the PEX perms file. instead the default.

i take that back. /pex user brought up the users. I guess it IS working now?

one thing i have noticed if that my prefixes arent working. admin names I believe are coded to be red. and "Admin" isnt being generated in front of my name. Why is that?

Another thing I noticed:
While in game a user connected and was tagged as grunt i tried to use the promotion command to get them into the next group on the perms and It said "Promotion Error: User are not in this ladder. Error in command syntax. Check command help." Does that mean I typed the command wrong? I used /pex promote "user" "Iron" group

Yeah im running into an issue with promoting. When i typer /promote "user" it says error in command syntax. I knew promoting and inheritances were a little broken. but do i have to specifically set up each individual regular user to the server?

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xIChaosKingIx

Use the following command:

/pex promote <user>

Note that you can't actually issue any PermissionsEx commands in-game without the following permissions node:

permissions.*

 

That node has to go in the permissions.yml for pex commands to work? insert it in the admin group under permissions?

Even with that node in the perms.yml it either says error in command syntax or that user isnt in that ladder? promoting is broken and i have no idea whats wrong.

If i type /pex promote "myusername" it says im not a high enough rank to promote thiat persons ranks. If i type anyone else username it either says they arent in that ladder or error in syntax

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