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title: Discord ACE Permissions
description: "EasyAdmin supports mapping Discord roles to FiveM ACE permission groups. This allows Discord roles to grant server permissions automatically. ## How It Works When a player connects to the server, EasyAdmin reads their Discord roles and applies the matching ACE…"
url: "https://snaily.games/kb/discord-ace-permissions/"
updated: "2026-10-12"
category: EasyAdmin / Discord Integration
tags:
  - discord
  - EasyAdmin
---

# Discord ACE Permissions

EasyAdmin supports mapping Discord roles to FiveM ACE permission groups. This allows Discord roles to grant server permissions automatically.

## How It Works

When a player connects to the server, EasyAdmin reads their Discord roles and applies the matching ACE permissions. Permissions sync:

- When a player connects to the server (before they spawn)
- When a member runs `/refreshperms` in Discord
- When a member's Discord roles change

This needs the Discord bot to be set up (`ea_botToken`) and present in the same Discord server as the member. See [Bot Setup](https://snaily.games/kb/discord-bot-setup/).

## Granting Permissions

Use `add_ace` with the `role:` principal type:

| `# Grant all permissions to a Discord role` `add_ace role:604749064436711444 easyadmin allow` `# Grant only player permissions to a Discord role` `add_ace role:604752112227844129 easyadmin.player allow` `# Grant specific permissions` `add_ace role:604749064436711444 easyadmin.player.kick allow` `add_ace role:604749064436711444 easyadmin.player.ban.temporary allow` |
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Replace the role ID with the actual Discord role ID (right-click the role in Discord, **Copy Role ID**).

## Inheriting from Groups

To make a Discord role inherit from an existing FiveM group:

| `add_principal role:604749064436711444 group.admin` |
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This makes the Discord role behave as if the player is a member of `group.admin`, inheriting all permissions assigned to that group.

## Migrating from Other ACE Resources

If you previously used a third-party ACE resource like `DiscordAcePerms`, replace the old format:

| `{655500055000, "group.moderator"}` |
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With the EasyAdmin format in `server.cfg`:

| `add_principal role:655500055000 group.moderator` |
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## Getting Role IDs

1. In Discord, enable Developer Mode (User Settings > Advanced > Developer Mode).
2. Right-click the role and select **Copy Role ID**.

## Permission Priority

FiveM's ACE system follows two rules:

- **A `deny` always wins.** If any `allow` and any `deny` apply to a permission, it is denied.
- **A parent permission covers everything below it.** Granting `easyadmin.player` also grants `easyadmin.player.kick`, and denying `easyadmin.player` denies `easyadmin.player.kick` too.

Because a `deny` on a broad permission blocks all of its children, a narrower `allow` cannot win it back:

| `# Kicking is allowed...` `add_ace group.trialadmin easyadmin.player.kick allow` `# ...but this deny blocks every EasyAdmin permission, kicking included` `add_ace group.trialadmin easyadmin deny` |
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