Telnets to a TeamSpeak 3 server and sets the given user to be in the serveradmin group. User must be on the TS server at runtime.

ts_make_serveradmin.py

from telnetlib import Telnet
from getpass import getpass
from time import sleep
import re
import argparse
import sys

p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
p.add_argument("-s", "--server", required=True)
p.add_argument("-p", "--port", default=10011, type=int)
p.add_argument("-u", "--user", required=True)
p.add_argument("-a", "--adminuser", default="serveradmin")
p.add_argument("-pw", "--password", default=None)

CLIENT_RE = "^clid=(\d+?) cid=(\d+?) client_database_id=(\d+?) client_nickname=(.+?) client_type=(\d+?)$"

class Client(object):
        def __init__(self, clid, cid, client_database_id, client_nickname, client_type):
                self.clid = clid
                self.cid = cid
                self.database_id = client_database_id
                self.nickname = client_nickname
                self.type = client_type

        def __repr__(self):
                return "%s: %s" % (self.__class__.__name__, self.nickname)


class WrongResponse(Exception):
        pass


def write_and_read(telnet_sess, write, read="error id=0 msg=ok"):
        write = write + "\n"
        read = read + "\n\r"
        telnet_sess.write(write)
        resp = telnet_sess.read_until(read, timeout=2)
        if resp != read:
                raise WrongResponse(resp.replace("\s", " "))

def disconnect(telnet_sess):
        print "Now disconnecting."
        write_and_read(telnet_sess, "quit", "error id=0 msg=ok")
        telnet_sess.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
        args = p.parse_args()
        if args.password is None:
                args.password = getpass("Server password: ")

        t = Telnet(args.server, args.port)
        sleep(1)
        t.read_very_eager()

        try:
                write_and_read(t, "login %s %s\n" % (args.adminuser, args.password))
        except WrongResponse as e:
                print "Error logging in to server: %s" % e
                disconnect(t)
                sys.exit(1)

        write_and_read(t, "use 1")
        t.write("clientlist\n")
        clientlist = t.read_until("error id=0 msg=ok\n\r").split("\n\r")[0].split("|")
        clients = []
        for c in clientlist:
                match = re.match(CLIENT_RE, c)
                clid, cid, client_database_id, client_nickname, client_type = match.groups()
                client_nickname = client_nickname.replace("\s", " ")
                clients.append(Client(
                        clid, cid, client_database_id, client_nickname, client_type))

        client = [c for c in clients if c.nickname == args.user]
        if not len(client):
                print "Unable to find user %s on server." % args.user
                disconnect(t)
                sys.exit(1)

        try:
                write_and_read(t, "servergroupaddclient sgid=6 cldbid=%s\n" % client[0].database_id)
                print "User %s added to serveradmin group." % args.user
        except WrongResponse, e:
                print "Error adding %s to serveradmin group: %s" % (args.user, e)
        finally:
                disconnect(t)