Enable a Whitelist on Your Rust Server

Published 9 June 2026 · By Host Havoc Technical Support Team

Rust does not have a built-in password option, so making your server private requires a whitelist plugin via uMod/Oxide. Before continuing, make sure uMod/Oxide is installed and running on your server. If it is not, follow Install uMod/Oxide first.

Download the Whitelist plugin

Download the Whitelist plugin by Wulf from umod.org/plugins/whitelist.

Upload the plugin

Upload the downloaded .cs file to your server's oxide/plugins/ directory. You can do this via the File Manager or an FTP client (see Connect via FTP).

Start the server

Restart your server. The Whitelist plugin will activate automatically on startup.

Add players to the whitelist

  1. Find the player's Steam ID using steamid.io.
  2. While in-game, press F1 to open the console.
  3. Run the following command, replacing 00000000000 with the player's Steam ID:
oxide.grant user 00000000000 whitelist.allow

Any player who tries to connect without being on the whitelist will be blocked.

Note: Server admins do not require whitelist permission to join.