How to Kick and Ban Players on Your Garry's Mod Server

You can kick and ban players through the server console in the dashboard. Garry's Mod uses the standard Source Engine commands for this.

List the players

1. Open the server console
   Open the console of your server via the dashboard.

2. Show the player list
   Enter the following command:

   status
   

   The output shows the userid, the SteamID in the format STEAM_0:x:xxxxxxx and the IP address for every connected player. You need these values for the commands below.

Kick a player

A kicked player is removed from the server but can rejoin immediately.

kick <Name>

kickid <userid> Reason

Instead of the userid you can also use the SteamID:

kickid STEAM_0:1:12345678 Reason

Ban a player

banid <minutes> <userid> kick

Here too you can use the SteamID instead of the userid:

banid 0 STEAM_0:1:12345678 kick

Ban an IP address

banip <minutes> <IP address>

Save bans permanently

1. Save SteamID bans
   Enter the following in the server console:

   writeid
   

   The bans are written to the file /garrysmod/cfg/banned_user.cfg.

2. Save IP bans
   Enter the following in the server console:

   writeip
   

   The bans are written to the file /garrysmod/cfg/banned_ip.cfg.

Unban a player

removeid STEAM_0:1:12345678

removeip <IP address>

Afterwards run writeid or writeip again so the change is saved permanently.

Command overview