Setting preferences 

Setting preferences

You can use the Palace commands to set various preferences for your Palace; these 

commands set values for keywords in the 

pserver.prefs

 file. See the section The 

Palace preferences file on page 49 for more information.

Setting user access and privileges

You can set rules for users visiting your Palace sites through your preferences file, 

pserver.prefs

 (see Setting user access and privileges on page 27) and through Palace 

commands executed on your Palace client (see Palace Command Summary on page 55). 

The following table describes what you can do.

What to do

How to do it

Set the number of users who can access your 

The 

 maxserverocc

 and 

Palace site, or any room within your Palace 

 defaultroomocc 

owner commands.

site.

Let users whisper (hold private 

 nowhisper

off

 command

conversations).

Maintain a log of conversations.

 chatlog filename

 command

Let users wear props.

 custom on|off 

command

Let users create rooms and draw within a 

 memberrooms on

 command.

room.

Allow non registered users (guests), and how 

 guests on

 command

many can visit at a time.

1

 roommaxguests numberofguests

command

Allow user scripts (called robots) on your 

 bots on|off 

command

site. 

2

Allow operators, and specify what they can 

 operators on 

command

do.

3

Set operator password to give to other users

 operatorpass 

command

Automatically kick off users who are trying 

 passwordsecurity on|off 

command

to create this operator password (by entering 

it more than 3 times).

Kick the user off the system. 

 kill 

or 

 banuser/banip 

command

Prevent a user from returning immediately 

 death minutes 

command

after being kicked off (called the death 

penalty).

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