Minecraft: How do I enable the whitelist on my minecraft server?
With the minecraft whitelist you can protect your gameserver from unauthorized access by only allowing people you specify to access your gameserver.
To activate the whitelist there are several ways, here in this post we will explain the different ways.
Activate whitelist
To enable the whitelist you have to set a value in the server.properties to true.
This value would be like this:
white-list=true
After you have done this, a restart of your gameserver is mandatory.
Alternatively you can enable the whitelist ingame or via the server console:
/whitelist on (Activates the whitelist function)
/whitelist off (Disables the whitelist function)
To enable the whitelist ingame you need to have OP rights, via the server console these commands are executed without the /
Manage whitelist
You can add/remove people from your whitelist with the following commands:
/whitelist add USERNAME
/whitelist remove USERNAME