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How to disable Online Mode in a Minecraft Server

Disabling Online Mode will allow Cracked players to join your server. Head to the Minecraft Servers File Manager and Go to the server.properties

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Online Mode is a server configuration option whether players will authenticate through Mojang's servers before allowing them to connect to your server. The process to Authenticate accounts verified if they are logged in and lets players access their skins.

1 Login to the Kinetic Panel and stop the server by clicking the power button, then the square icon.

2 Head to the Settings Page.

3 Click on the Server Properties tab.

4 Inside of the Search Settings box, type in "Online-Mode", then change the value of Online Mode from "true" to "false".
Make sure to click save once you've made these changes.

5 From there, you can start your server with Online Mode being Disabled.

Why would you do this?

Proxies - In some cases, you are going to link Multiple Minecraft Servers together with Bungeecord or Velocity, Disabling Online Mode will be required to link all of the servers together.

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