Important information about teamspeak identities
Jan 5, 2016 22:43:41 GMT
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Post by steamloller on Jan 5, 2016 22:43:41 GMT
Hello fellow clan mates!
There is some important announcements to make, regarding our teamspeak server. Because of technical limitation on the server side, we cannot have more than 200 unique IDs. This is not the maximum number of the users, but as the name suggest, an unique identifier.
What's a Unique ID on TS?
The unique ID is a special series of character, unique to a definite user. This means, that if you use your PC, the TS server authenticate you with the unique ID which was first created on your computer when you first entered the server. At this moment, the TS will register this ID, and associate it with your ID file on your computer. This means, no matter what IP you have, or if you change your name, TS will still know it's you. Every single permission, badge, everything you get on TS, all the info about you will be associated with this ID.
The current problem:
Unique IDs are set on our server for security reasons, that even if I can see one user's serial of characters, if he loses the encrypted file on his side (for example, windows reinstall), even I, as a superadmin, cannot restore his user (meaning even if I can tell him the unique ID, he cannot encrypt into it to a file). This usually comes in the form that you log in, and see all your permissions and badges lost. Because, when you installed a new windows, and with that new teamspeak, you got yourself a new Unique ID, which got registered with the TS server when you log in from your fresh system. In the technical sense, teamspeak just got a new user. This is also true, when people uses multiple computers, phones to log in into the same TS, but in fact, they have a different identity in every single device.
The problem, that the teamspeak server apperantly shut down itself when somebody will try to create the 201. unique ID. I think this is a kind of security method, but the fact is there that it's working like this.
The most important part. What you have to do?
To avoid a nuclear war within our teamspeak, you have to do the following first on the computer you use the most, and have all your permissions and everything set:
Go to Settings/Identities. There, you have one default user, with your name, and unique ID. Push Export, and with that, you will save a file. Put this file to a safe place. This is like your ID card for TS.
After this, go to your other devices, open the same menu, and then push Import there. Use the file you saved. With this, you have the same identity on your other device too. Repeat this on all of your devices.
Please, everyone do this within a maximum of one week. At January 11., I'm going to delete any names with multiple unique IDs. If you import you ID to every device, the problem will work out itself, because you copying one identity over the others. It's important, that after you imported you identity, make it the default, and delete the unneeded one.
From this time on, I'm going to make a cleaning every month, so keep your account one-way, and clean.
There is some important announcements to make, regarding our teamspeak server. Because of technical limitation on the server side, we cannot have more than 200 unique IDs. This is not the maximum number of the users, but as the name suggest, an unique identifier.
What's a Unique ID on TS?
The unique ID is a special series of character, unique to a definite user. This means, that if you use your PC, the TS server authenticate you with the unique ID which was first created on your computer when you first entered the server. At this moment, the TS will register this ID, and associate it with your ID file on your computer. This means, no matter what IP you have, or if you change your name, TS will still know it's you. Every single permission, badge, everything you get on TS, all the info about you will be associated with this ID.
The current problem:
Unique IDs are set on our server for security reasons, that even if I can see one user's serial of characters, if he loses the encrypted file on his side (for example, windows reinstall), even I, as a superadmin, cannot restore his user (meaning even if I can tell him the unique ID, he cannot encrypt into it to a file). This usually comes in the form that you log in, and see all your permissions and badges lost. Because, when you installed a new windows, and with that new teamspeak, you got yourself a new Unique ID, which got registered with the TS server when you log in from your fresh system. In the technical sense, teamspeak just got a new user. This is also true, when people uses multiple computers, phones to log in into the same TS, but in fact, they have a different identity in every single device.
The problem, that the teamspeak server apperantly shut down itself when somebody will try to create the 201. unique ID. I think this is a kind of security method, but the fact is there that it's working like this.
The most important part. What you have to do?
To avoid a nuclear war within our teamspeak, you have to do the following first on the computer you use the most, and have all your permissions and everything set:
Go to Settings/Identities. There, you have one default user, with your name, and unique ID. Push Export, and with that, you will save a file. Put this file to a safe place. This is like your ID card for TS.
After this, go to your other devices, open the same menu, and then push Import there. Use the file you saved. With this, you have the same identity on your other device too. Repeat this on all of your devices.
Please, everyone do this within a maximum of one week. At January 11., I'm going to delete any names with multiple unique IDs. If you import you ID to every device, the problem will work out itself, because you copying one identity over the others. It's important, that after you imported you identity, make it the default, and delete the unneeded one.
From this time on, I'm going to make a cleaning every month, so keep your account one-way, and clean.
