IsPlayerAceAllowed: How does it works?

[justalemon]

So, I have been trying to see and understand how does IsPlayerAceAllowed works.

My permissions in server.cfg looks like this:

add_ace group.admin menu.admin allow
add_ace group.moderator menu.moderator allow
add_ace group.developer menu.developer allow
add_principal identifier.steam:1100001096a1e35 group.admin
add_principal identifier.steam:1100001096a1e35 group.moderator
add_principal identifier.steam:1100001096a1e35 group.developer

And every time that I call one of the following, I always get false:

API.IsPlayerAceAllowed(MyPlayerObject.Handle, "menu.admin");
API.IsPlayerAceAllowed(MyPlayerObject.Handle, "menu.moderator");
API.IsPlayerAceAllowed(MyPlayerObject.Handle, "menu.developer");
API.IsPlayerAceAllowed(MyPlayerObject.Handle, "group.admin");
API.IsPlayerAceAllowed(MyPlayerObject.Handle, "group.moderator");
API.IsPlayerAceAllowed(MyPlayerObject.Handle, "group.developer");

Why is always false? There is something wrong with the function or am I doing something wrong?

[Syntasu]

Have you looked through this guide:

Basic Aces & Principals overview/guide

Basics: Aces & Principals Aces and principals are the default “permissions” system built into fxserver. It’s very easy to use, as long as you know the basics and you just start trying out some stuff. It’s also very easy to use this from within resources. Just use ExecuteCommand() to add/remove aces or principals, and use IsPlayerAceAllowed() to check if a player is allowed access to an ace (either directly or via inherited permissions). Principals Let’s start by taking a look at what a Princi…

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[justalemon]

Yeah, specially the “Principals: Command syntax” and " Ace-command syntax" sections.

[justalemon]

Part of the list_aces command:

group.admin -> menu.admin = ALLOW
group.developer -> menu.developer = ALLOW
group.moderator -> menu.moderator = ALLOW

[Syntasu]

I don’t see anything wrong with the way you setup the permissions, so my theory is that something wonky gets passed into IsPlayerAceAllowed, Maybe MyPlayerObject.Handle is off or incorrect?

[justalemon]

MyPlayerObject is generated on the server from LocalPlayer.Handle on the client side, so MyPlayerObject.Handle should be the same as LocalPlayer.Handle.

[Syntasu]

And you are sure that identifier.steam:1100001096a1e35 is the correct steam id?
I mean if you are on localhost, you can even do: identifier.ip:127.0.0.1.

Also cutting down the possible cases would be wise:

add_ace group.admin menu.admin allow
add_principal identifier.steam:1100001096a1e35 group.admin
...
API.IsPlayerAceAllowed(MyPlayerObject.Handle, "menu.admin");

See if that works

[justalemon]

@Syntasu

And you are sure that identifier.steam:1100001096a1e35 is the correct steam id?

1100001096a1e35 is 76561198118215221, and that matches my profile ID so yea, is correct.

@Syntasu

I mean if you are on localhost, you can even do: identifier.ip:127.0.0.1 .

Well, the problem is specifically with IsPlayerAceAllowed. I know this because other commands that require group.admin work without problems (like restart).

[justalemon]

Well, I did nothing other than building again both server and client but they work (even if Player.Handle is not the same).