Review a Towny assistant rank before promoting a resident
A town rank can allow more than its friendly name suggests. Inspect the actual configured permissions before promoting someone who only needs one management task.
Before you start
Towny combines town membership, plots, permissions and economy rules. Test with a mayor, resident and outsider where relevant; an administrator can bypass the restriction you intend to check. Record the town and world so similarly named places do not confuse results.
Work through the check
- Record the resident’s current town and nation ranks and list the specific task they need, such as inviting residents rather than managing the bank.
- Read the installed server’s rank definitions and inherited permission nodes alongside the Towny command reference, because rank contents are configurable.
- On an isolated copy, assign only the proposed town rank to a normal test account using the documented rank control.
- Test the intended action and a few relevant forbidden actions, including bank withdrawal or claim management where appropriate, without completing destructive operations.
Confirm the result
The account should gain the intended task without unrelated management powers. Town rank changes should not silently add a nation role or a global permissions group.
If the result differs
Operator status and permissions-plugin inheritance can mask what the Towny rank actually grants. Inspect the test account’s effective permissions instead of assuming the rank definition is the only source.
Recover safely
Remove the specific trial rank and restore the recorded prior ranks if access is excessive. Adjust the narrow rank definition on a test copy rather than giving a helper every Towny permission.
Documentation and related help
Check the Towny maintainer documentation and Towny maintainer reference against your installed release before applying changes.