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Minecraft: Server Activating and editing a whitelist

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(Details may vary with products from different providers but the main concepts remain the same)

Cloud-Gameserver

Introduction​

The Minecraft Whitelist is an option to protect your server by only allowing selected players on the list to connect to yourserver. By default, Minecraft doesn't offer a server password option like other games do.

How to enable WHITELIST on your Minecraft Server

How to enable WHITELIST on your Minecraft Server

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Activate whitelist​

Activation (Config)​

In order to activate the whitelist, the value of the command in the server.properties Config has to be set to true. A restart of the server is necessary for the change to take effect.

white-list=true

Activation (Chat)​

Alternatively, the whitelist option can also be activated in-game or via the live console:

/whitelist on			(Enable whitelist option)
/whitelist off			(Disable whitelist option)

To enable the whitelist option via the game, operator permissions are required! Otherwise, this can also be done via the live console (interface). Be aware that the commands have to be executed without the / symbol there.

Manage Whitelist​

Add / remove players​

Chat

You can add or remove players from the whitelist by using the following commands:

/whitelist add SpielerName
/whitelist remove SpielerName

white-list.json

In case the UUID of the player is known, then the player can also be added manually via the white-list.json file. This can be accessed and modified by using FTP. You can find instructions for connecting via FTP here: Access via FTP

[
  {
    "uuid": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "name": "Spieler1"
  },
  {
    "uuid": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "name": "Spieler2"
  },
  {
    "uuid": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "name": "Spieler3"
  }
]

Update list​

If you add players manually, then you will need to reload the whitelist in-game. This is also possible by using a command to avoid a restart of the server:

 /whitelist reload

View the list​

If you don't want to open the whitelist file via FTP every time, you can also display all players on the whitelist with the following command:

/whitelist list