Change challenge attributes

Goal

Here, we assume that you are a CTF administrator, the infrastructure is already configured and you understand the key concepts. During or before your event you may need to change challenge attributes.

For all updates, go to the CTFd Admin Panel and edit the challenge (https://CTFD_URL/admin/challenges).

Change the scope

When you arrive on the modification page, the value displayed is the one configured at the challenge level.

If you switch to a shared challenge mode, you need to deploy it from the panel. See the associated documentation.

Additionally, you will need to manually destroy instances that are no longer in use, or wait for them to be automatically deleted if a timeout or until condition has been configured.

Change the destroy on flag

When you arrive on the modification page, the value displayed is the one configured at the challenge level.

You can edit this value at any time without any impact on Chall-Manager API.

Change the mana cost

When you arrive on the modification page, the value displayed is the one configured at the challenge level.

By editing this value, you do not edit the existing coupons of this challenge.

This allows you to organize sales periods if you want to.

Change Timeout

When you arrive on the modification page, the value displayed is the one configured at the challenge level.

You can change or reset this value, Chall-Manager will update all the computed until for instances.

Change Until

When you arrive on the modification page, the value displayed is the one configured at the challenge level.

You can change or reset this value, Chall-Manager will update all the computed until for instances.

Change the scenario

When you arrive on the modification page, you can download the current scenario archive.

By editing this value, you need to provide an update strategy.

The update can be long, depends on the update gap and the strategy.