====== Players and accounts ======

Every player has an **account** on the server, and a **character** in each game they play.

===== Telnet accounts =====
Telnet players make an account (a name and a password) the first time: they type **NEW** at the name prompt. Then they log in with it. ''AllowNewUsers=0'' stops new accounts; ''adduser'' still makes them. Players change their password from the game menu (**P**).

Names are 2 to 30 characters: letters, digits, spaces and ''- _ . '''. They start with a letter or digit. Passwords are stored salted and hashed in ''users.dat''.

===== BBS accounts (rlogin) =====
BBS players get an account the first time they come, with no password: the BBS has already logged them in.
  * From a BBS listed in ''RLoginAllow'', the account has their BBS name (''Bob'').
  * From a BBS with a key (1.4), the account has their BBS name and the BBS's tag (''Bob@EXB''). So the same name on two BBSes is two players.

An rlogin account can't log in by telnet, and an rlogin can't use the name of a telnet account. ''passwd <name> <pw>'' turns an rlogin account into a telnet one.

Characters in BBS names that accounts don't allow are dropped; a name with nothing usable left is refused with "can't be used here".

===== Characters =====
Inside each game, players make their LORD character as usual: an alias, a gender and a class. An account can have a character in every game. The game matches a character to its account by the account name (the "real name" in the drop file the server writes), so renaming or deleting an account leaves its characters behind.

===== Sysops =====
Sysops (''sysop <name>'', or ''Sysops='' in ''lordsrv.ini'') get:
  * **[!]** on the game menu, which runs lordcfg for a game over the connection;
  * the top security level in the games.
Only make trusted accounts sysops. A BBS account (''Bob@EXB'') can be made a sysop like any other.

===== The game menu =====
<code>
  LORD Server
  -----------
  [A] Legend of the Red Dragon                0 on now
  [B] The Second Realm                        2 on now
  [W] Who's on
  [P] Change password
  [!] Set up a game
  [Q] Quit
</code>
The games (with how many are on each), **W** who's on, **P** change password (telnet accounts), **!** set up a game (sysops), **Q** quit.

===== Managing accounts =====
^ Command ^ What it does ^
| ''users'' | List them: Id, name, type (T telnet, R rlogin, S sysop, D disabled), created, last call, calls. |
| ''disable <name>'' / ''enable <name>'' | Stop an account logging in, or allow it again. |
| ''passwd <name> <pw>'' | Set a password. |
| ''adduser <name> <pw>'' | Make a telnet account. |
| ''deluser <name>'' | Delete an account (its LORD characters stay). |
| ''sysop <name>'' / ''unsysop <name>'' | Sysop or not. |
To stop a player playing one game only, use lordcfg's player editor for that game.