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+## How to set a character to GM Status
+
+1. Log in to your server with the character you wish to make a GM
+2. Log out to the character selection screen.
+3. Go into your SQL editor of choice (or command line) and change account.status to 255.
+4. Log in and enjoy GM commands (typing #help will give you a list of commands)
+
+For example, in linux step three would look something like this:
+
+    $ mysql -u my_db_username -p
+    mysql> use eqemu;
+    mysql> UPDATE account SET status = 255 WHERE name = 'my_character_name';
+    mysql> quit;
+
+In this example, `my_db_username` is the username that you set for the mysql database during server installation and `my_character_name` is the name of the character you setting to GM status.
+
+You may find the [[account]] table schema a useful reference as well.
+