Teamspeak 3 – Recovering privilege key after first startup (MySQL/MariaDB Only)

When deploying a Teamspeak3 server one thing that is vital for the first time startup is to make a note of the privilege key, but what do you do if for some reason you didn’t write it down?

In this article I will show you how to retrieve it!

1. Login to your Teamspeak3 server

2. Connect to SQL: <pre class="lang:default decode:true">mysql -uyouruser -p</pre>

3. Select your TS3 Database: <pre class="lang:default decode:true " >USE <DatabaseName>;</pre>

4. Sleect the Tokens Table: <pre class="lang:default decode:true " >SELECT * FROM tokens;</pre>

5. You should see a privilege key copy this (token_key) column

Its as simple as that! the privilege key can only be used once, when it has been used it will be removed from the tokens table.