Using Your ParaChat Server's Admin Server To Execute Commands Remotely

You may telnet to your ParaChat Server's Admin Server to execute a variety of server commands (a list of commands is located below). To access and use the Admin Server, please follow these steps:

1. Use your favorite telnet application and telnet to your host machine.

Using a dos window remotely:
telnet <machine IP or domain name> <adminport>

Example:


telnet 192.168.1.1 7888

Using a dos window locally:
telnet localhost <adminport>

Example:


telnet localhost 7888

For example, if your machine is called "mymachine.com", and the Admin Server port is configured to 7778, the proper convention would be:

telnet mymachine.com 7778

 NOTE:  As a security precaution, your ParaChat Server Admin Server port is set to 0 (zero) by default. If you intend on utilizing the Admin Server, we highly recommend changing the default password. Please note that any change to the pchatd.conf file requires that you restart the chat server for the change to be implemented. To specify the admin server port, and password, open the pchatd.conf file (..ParaChat/ParaChat570/config/pchatd.conf).

In the #pchatd parameters section, you will see:
pchatd.adminpasswd=<randomly set during install process>
pchatd.adminport=0

The admin port is disabled until you set it to a new port number. ( 0 = disabled )

2. Type your password (assume the password you set is "nickle"):

passwd nickle

3. Your password is accepted:

password: true

4. Execute admin server commands

A list of server commands can be found below

 NOTE:  Typing an empty line at any time exits the admin server.
There is no "help" and nothing works until you type in a legal "passwd" command.
These designs are intentional, to protect against curious hackers. You may also consider using a firewall to protect this admin port.