Challenge

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 global scope

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

By editing this value, you trigger instances destruction, see workflow belows:

flowchart LR
    A[Update] --> B
    B[Update on CTFd backend] --> C 
    C{challenge global ?} 
    C -->|True|F[Destroy all instances]
    C -->|False| E[Destroy global instance] 
    E --> H[Send update payload to CM]
    F --> H

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. Also, you can organize sales periods.

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.