How to make your server private Print

While there is no current way to add a password to your Rust server, there are two ways that you can stop other players from joining your server. This can be done either through:

• Restricting access to those outside of your Steam group in your server config files
• Installing a Whitelist plugin via Oxide

How to make your server private via the server config:

1. Stop your server
2. Navigate to the Configuration Files tab
3. Open the server.cfg with the text editor
4. Remove the # in front of server.steamgroup <steam group id>
5. Set your 16 digit Steam Group ID then click "Save & Exit"
6. Start your server

How to find your Steam Group ID:

1. Find the URL of your Steam group, which will take the form of:
   https://steamcommunity.com/groups/nameofgroup
2. Add '/memberslistxml/?xml=1' to the end of your group's URL. Following the previous example, your new URL should be:
   https://steamcommunity.com/groups/nameofgroup/memberslistxml/?xml=1
3. This will bring you to a page full of XML code, at the top of which will be your group's ID. The 16 digit number inside of 'groupID64 tags' will be your server ID.