I Made a Starbound Account Manager

I've noticed that Starbound lacks the GUI support for creating log in accounts. So, I used my newly acquired Java skills to create a little GUI application to nicely generate the required accesscontrol.config file. It provides a GUI for adding accounts, banned IP's, usersnames and playernames. Here are some screenshots -
Main Screen

Add Account Menu

Add Banner User Menu


Link to github - Features the source and the downloads, as well as the readme -
https://github.com/DanilaFe/Starbound-Server-Account-Generator

How to use -
You need the Java Runtime Environment to run this! First of all, download the zip file. Extract the zip wherever you want, and run StarboundServerAccountGenerator.jar.
As you may know, Starbound's server determines the user account / banned users etc. from the accesscontrol.config. This generator will immediately open with an "Open File" dialog. In this dialog, navigate to your accesscontrol.config (Located in the universe folder in your Starbound root). A menu should come up similar to the one in the screenshots above. From there, you can use the buttons to add whatever properties you need to your config. Finally, to save the configuration click "Save Config". If the button is not clicked, the config will not be saved!

 

Very nice! Let's hope that the devs add something like this to the game, to make it easier to servers to ban, and make the game less pirate-friendly. Nice job

-KyPTeD

 

I host a server for many of my friends and am always inviting people from our gaming community.... and at times we get rude people or trolls who actively want to ruin the experience for others. This would be a great tool in managing things. Id love to test it if you dont mind, ill leave you a pm

 

Soon i'll be allowed to post links, so then I won't have to email the zip to people.

Thanks

I sent you an email.

EDIT
Just to make sure you know, the server will need to be restarted for the config to update

EDIT 2
Uhhh I can't edit in links :s
I'll make a post later with the GitHub (Or maybe i'll finally be able to edit my post with links, whichever one works)

 

Whoa, talk about useful! I'll definitely be using this when you can post the link to it. Great job

 

Nice work looks great I'll try it out once the link is public

 

Why thank you!

I'm trying to get the link out. Apparently i'm still not allowed to post :s
Also, nice profile picture!

EDIT:
Ah, there it is. Link is now in the main post.

 

Yay Ill try it out when I home (Its good to have comunity projects like this!)

 

Also, if you find any bugs / issues please post them here - https://github.com/DanilaFe/Starbound-Server-Account-Generator/issues/new
I will be happy to fix them. Please do, however, provide a good description of the issue, simply saying "ERMAHGERD ITS NOT WORKING" won't help.

 

Ok will do

 

Works like a charm! I whitelisted some people on a server i'm hosting

 

You need a post count of 3 or higher to post links, afaik.

 

It's pretty strange because it said i needed to post 2 times. Maybe that needs a little fix.

 

Does anybody find this useful at all? Or is it just easier to modify the files manually?

 

I find the idea of logging in through something that is not officially part of the game a bit uncomfortable... others sure seem to like it, though.

 

Just to clarify, the login system is in-game.
Without this, you simply add entries to the file manually.
All the passwords stay in that file and are used exclusively by the vanilla server to accept / reject connections.

 

What is the max amount of players you can add per server?

 

As far as i know, it's infinite. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

Also, just to make sure people can reach it, to download the file go to the github link >> version and click the latest file. Then click "view raw" and it should download.