A whitelist lets only approved players join your Minecraft server.

Turn on the whitelist

  1. Start the server and open Console.
  2. Run:
    whitelist on
  3. Add players with:
    whitelist add PlayerName
  4. If you edited whitelist files manually, run:
    whitelist reload

To turn the whitelist off later, run whitelist off.

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