How To Enable A Whitelist On Your SCP: 5K Server

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Nov 30, 2024

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Want to control who can join your SCP: 5K server? Enabling a whitelist is the best way to ensure that only approved players can access your server.

Managing a private game or building a trusted community involves setting up and customizing a whitelist for your server.


# Setting up a Whitelist on your Server

You can enable or disable the whitelist setting within your SCP: 5K Server Settings in the config tab.

  1. Access your control panel and Stop the server.
  2. Navigate to the Config tab.
  3. Open the SCP: 5K Server Settings.
  4. Find the Whitelist setting and click on the toggle.
  • Setting the toggle to True or ✓ will enable the Whitelist.
  • Setting the toggle to False or ✕ will disable the Whitelist.
  1. Save and Start your server.

# Adding a User to the Server Whitelist

You can add a user to the Whitelist via the WhitelistIDs.ini file.

  1. Locate the player's SteamID64.

We have a guide available to help you find a player's SteamID64 here.

  1. Access your control panel and Stop the server.
  2. Navigate to the Files tab.
  3. Locate and Open the WhitelistIDs.ini file
  4. Add the player's SteamID64 to the file.
  5. Click Save and Start the server.

And there you have it! Enabling a whitelist on your SCP: 5K server is a straightforward way to maintain control over who can join, ensuring a secure and enjoyable environment for approved players.

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Jay Miller

Game Experience Engineer @ Shockbyte