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Set a join password on your Arma Reforger game server

Set a join password so only people you tell can join your Arma Reforger server, and know how it differs from the admin password. Panel and config.json.

Updated , checked on Arma Reforger 1.8.0.13

To put a password on your Arma Reforger server, set game.password in config.json and restart. Players then have to enter it to join. The admin password is a different setting, game.passwordAdmin, and it does not stop anyone joining.

Join password

The join password keeps people out. Leave the join password empty for a public server.

In the ArthOS panel

  1. Open the Config Editor tab.
  2. Under Server, find Join password (game.password) and type the password (1). Use the eye button to show or hide what you typed.
  3. Press Save (3), then Restart now. Saved changes apply after a restart, and the restart disconnects everyone who is playing, so do it when few people are on.
The Join password and Admin password fields in the Config Editor
  1. Type the join password
  2. Admin password, a different one
  3. Discard and Save

By hand

In config.json, put the password between the quotes of password inside game:

"game": {
  "password": "everon2026"
}

Save the file and restart the server. To remove the password, set it back to "" and restart.

A password does not hide the server. It still shows in the server browser, and players are asked for the password when they join. To hide it from the list too, turn off Show in the server browser (game.visible). Players can still join by address.

See also hide the server from the browser and the whitelist options.

Admin password

The admin password is for you and your admins. A player who is in the game types #login followed by the admin password in chat, and then has admin rights.

  1. In the Config Editor, find Admin password (game.passwordAdmin) and set it. The panel refuses a password with a space in it.
  2. Save and restart.
  3. Join the server, open chat, and type #login yourpassword to check it works.

By hand it is the passwordAdmin value under game. Bohemia says it does not support spaces. A random one is created when a Loafhosts server is built, so replace it with one you chose.

Admins listed in game.admins can use #login without a password. See add admins.

Keep them apart

Use two different passwords. If you hand the join password to a whole community, you do not want it to also open admin commands. Share the join password in a members-only channel, and change it and restart if it leaks.

If it does not work

  • Players still join without a password. The server has not been restarted since you saved, or the field is empty.
  • #login does not work. Check the password has no spaces and that you typed it exactly as saved.
  • The server will not start after a manual edit. A quote or comma is missing around the password.
  • You want it off the public list. A password alone does not do this. Turn off game.visible as well.

Sources: Bohemia wiki: Server Config, Bohemia wiki: Server Management

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