Privileges provide a means for server administrators to give certain playersaccess to special abilities in the engine, games or mods.For example, game moderators may need to travel instantly to any place in the world,this ability is implemented in /teleport command which requires teleport privilege.
A mod can call minetest.check_player_privs to test whether a player has privilegesto perform an operation.Also, when registering a chat command with minetest.register_chatcommand a mod candeclare privileges that the command requires using the privs field of the commanddefinition.
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