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How to set a Password on an Enshrouded Server

Last updated 07 Jun 2025

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Setting a password on your Enshrouded server can give your server an extra layer of secruity to prevent unwanted players from joining the server.

1 Login to the Kinetic Panel.

2 Stop the server.

3 Navigate to the Settings page.

Settings

4 You can set your password within the SERVER PASSWORD box.

Settings

5 Now, Navigate to the File Manager.

File Manager

6 Look for the file enshrouded_server.json and open it.

7 Inside of the file, you will see the password you have set on the Settings page & under that, you will see a randomly generated server password, in our case it's "test", you will want to replace that with the password you've set on the Settings page.

File Manager

8 All you need to do now is Save the file & start your server! You can now join your Enshrouded server with the password.

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