Tutorial - How to create a Server (Linux)

Sometimes it's not enough for one to play on others servers. You want your own, with own maps, own server controller and own power over everything. In this tutorial you will learn how to set up your own server.

This tutorial is for Linux only. For Windows please read our Windows tutorial.

Step 1 - Creating a User

FromWe a security point of view it makes senseneed to create an extra user justand switch to run the Trackmania server on.it. Never run thea server as root!
root user! So just in case someone could get access to your VPS or dedicated server through the game server, the attacker only has permissions as that user, and not root.

sudo adduser tmserver

Choose a secure password, and ignore every other information. Enter Y if asked if this information is correct. Then log into the user.

sudo su - tmserver

Step 2 - Downloading the Server