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TeamSpeak 3 User Management

The mechanism controlling user permissions on a TeamSpeak 3 server is fundamentally different than in TeamSpeak 2. In TeamSpeak 2 individual users were added to the servers database and permissions bound to a user login name and password. In TeamSpeak 3 user login names and passwords no longer exist. Instead users connect to a virtual server providing just a nickname, which is only used for how to display the user to others but in no way related to access control.

To identify a user on a TeamSpeak 3 virtual server, a public key encryption mechanism is used:

When the Client is started for the first time, it automatically creates a key pair consisting of a public and a private key. The first time a new user connects to a virtual server, his client will automatically send his public key to the server. The virtual server creates an unique identifier from this public key and stores this identifier in its database. So instead of identification with login and password, a TeamSpeak 3 server identifies users by their unique ID. Should the user delete his private key and create a new one when connecting, he will be treated as a new individual by the server.

Since there is no input needed to "register" on a TeamSpeak 3 server there is no such thing as a manual registration in TeamSpeak 3. Basically once you connect you are automatically registered on the server you connected to. When you join again the server will recognize you.

TeamSpeak 3 Permission Overview

All settings that you can apply to a client on the server side are stored in reference to the clients unique ID. This way, when the client reconnects to the server maybe using a new IP, a new nickname the server can still recognize it by the unique ID, and apply these settings. One of the more important settings you can apply to clients is of course to grant or revoke certain permissions to them.

Clients joining for the first time will automatically become a member of the default Server Permissions Group that is configured via the server settings - also clients that join a channel they have not visited before will automatically be inserted into the Default Channel Permission Group (also configured via the server settings). Usually you will also be some kind of administrator group that allows you to configure the server in the way you like it when you are a member of this group. The default group layout contains a "Server Admin" group for this purpose.

Step by step: Becoming Administrator on your own server using tokens

When you first login to your server, click on the 'Permissions' tab and select 'Use token' from the drop down menu, enter the token key provided to you by us and you will become the server administrator. This token can only be used ONCE.

OK, so how do you make other users Server Admins or Channel Admins. Again click the 'Permissions' tab and this time select 'Token manager' from the drop down menu, then 'Add Token'. You can the select whether to create a token for Server Admin, or Channel Admins, and also select the channel to allow admin permissions. Once you have selected the options click 'Create' and a new token will be generated. Send this to the user to add to their account and gain the relevant permissions.... easy!!!