Can't modify Owner group // Change Owner group icon

TeamSpeak Communities Issues and Support
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Hello everyone, and I’m very sorry about this likely very noobish question. It’s been years since I last used Teamspeak…

I have just granted myself the admin privileges on my new Teamspeak community, and was therefore assigned to the owner role.

However, when I tried giving it a custom icon and a different name, I get errored out with “insufficient permissions”, which unfortunately makes sense: The owner group was given a Group Modify Power of 75, but the Needed Group Modify Power for the Owner group is set to 76.

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Is there no way to edit the Owner group on a TS Community, or did I mess up somewhere? It would be nice to at least have a different icon…

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This is intentional. In the past, many users removed themselves ranks or altered permissions, which required manual recovery on our end. To prevent this in the future, all newly created communities now include this “safety lock”.

If you want to use custom icons, you need to create new groups and keep the Owner group icon unchanged.

We do not recommend this for new TeamSpeak users:

But like mentioned below you can daily drive a different identity with just the Server Admin permissions.

Please keep in mind that if you somehow manage to delete this one or loos it. You may loose full access to your server. So proceed with caution and only if you know how identities and permissions on TeamSpeak work.

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That makes sense - thank you for the quick reply! Feel free to lock this thread or something :sweat_smile:

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Hello !

Is there a way to disable the “security lock” on the owner rank that prevents users from changing the rights or even the icon for that rank?

I know it was put in place to prevent people from removing their own rights, but as a regular Teamspeak user, it really bothers me.

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Just copy the groups and never touch the default groups.

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The server admin group is juste a copy of the owner group, but i have to keep the owner group on me or If I take it off, could I put it back on?

What bothers me most is that there is an icon on the group, and I don’t want an icon.

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Edit: Okay, apparently you can’t leave the group or edit it. So if the icon bothers you that much, you could connect to the server with a different identity, where you would then only have your desired server group. Just copy the bookmark, edit the copy and select a different identity.

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Hello, I bought a teamspeak6 server. I wanted to change the icon on my server, but I am not allowed to change the server owner icon. Am I not the owner of the server? Why can’t I change it?

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You can find the detailed reply here:

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Hey All,

More of a Feature Request really as I will probably be self hosting for now until more regions come out (Oceania based), but for now on my Subscription based server (NY Host).

I’ve noticed a few little things in the default server config, such as the default Owner group requiring more Modify Power to edit itself than it provides.

This means you can’t rename/make any changes to the Owner group.

I imagine this is probably so people starting out/unfamiliar with TeamSpeak can’t fubar their servers but would be nice to have an option somewhere on the web ui to change this, or perhaps edit some basic configurations directly. Or… I’m just missing something, has been many years since I used TS3.

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Like mentioned above this is a feature rather than a bug, there is also explained why exactly it is like that. You can however modify all other groups

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I created a TeamSpeak 6 community, and although the server recognizes me as the owner, I can’t change the permission settings.

For example, I’m trying to configure it so that any user can move another user to a different channel, but the server is preventing me from changing the permission levels. Even I, as the owner, can’t move users between channels.
How can I fix this?