Allow list broken with 1.20.10 update.

[IanSmith232]

Not sure what is happening exactly, but with the 1.20.10 update, I can't join my server. It says "you are not invited" or something.

Here is my environment variables. I removed the ALLOW_LIST_USERS all together, and I still get rejected from the server.

 "environmentVariables": [
                        {
                            "name": "LEVEL_NAME",
                            "value": "bedrock-level-2"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "DEBUG",
                            "value": "true"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "ALLOW_CHEATS",
                            "value": "false"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "MEMBERS",
                            "value": "xxx,yyy,zzz"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "EULA",
                            "value": "true"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "DIFFICULTY",
                            "value": "easy"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "GAMEMODE",
                            "value": "survival"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "OVERRIDE_SERVER_PROPERTIES",
                            "value": "true"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "TZ",
                            "value": "Europe/Amsterdam"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "OPS",
                            "value": "xxx"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "VERSION",
                            "value": "LATEST"
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "MAX_PLAYERS",
                            "value": "10"
                        }
                    ],

[itzg]

I'm still not sure what is happening. The latest image now generates the allowlist.json file exactly as the allowlist add ... command does; however, I get the same "can't join the party". The latest image does remove the allowlist file when ALLOW_LIST_USERS is empty/absent, so at least you can get the server back into a joinable state.

[itzg]

...I'm going to mark this as "caused by upstream" for now, because something seems to be weird on their part. It's like the allow list needs to only be loaded into the world data via the command.

[IanSmith232]

Verified that the workaround (deleting allow list) works. Thank you for looking into this!!!!!

[SvenLudwig202]

I'm still not sure what is happening. The latest image now generates the allowlist.json file exactly as the allowlist add ... command does; however, I get the same "can't join the party". The latest image does remove the allowlist file when ALLOW_LIST_USERS is empty/absent, so at least you can get the server back into a joinable state.

With those latest changes (commit #337) it seems to no longer be possible to get a "sideloaded" allowlist.json to work, as it ends up being deleted when you don't have the ALLOW_LIST_USERS filled and overwritten when you set said variable.
Is this intended?

[itzg]

@SvenLudwig202 can you help figure out why the presence of an allowlist.json file prevents joining the server? When you side load the file, is there anything in particular you put in yours for the listed users to be able to access th server?

I'll change the code later to at least only delete the file when the variable is an empty string.

[SvenLudwig202]

To be fully honest I don't think I can bring much new info to the table.

I noticed the bedrock server not starting with an error message pointing out that it wasn't able to delete the allowlist.json.
I had ran my server with setting the ALLOW_LIST: "true" and then splicing in the allowlist.json via the volumes in the compose file for quite some time with no problems. Though to be fully honest, I haven't tried connecting to the server since the latest
1.20.11 release.
This allowlist.json looked nothing special, see below:
[{"ignoresPlayerLimit":false,"name":"Iamaname","xuid":"123456789123456789"},{"ignoresPlayerLimit":false,"name":"Alsoaname","xuid":"987654321987654321"}]

I've now tried setting up using the ALLOW_LIST_USERS by entering the required usernames separated via comma and I can see that a allowlist.json is being generated (missing the xuid portion at this point). From what I understand the bds should read this and resolve the names, but this doesn't seem to be happening. The server isn't putting out any info to the log regarding this though. I've tried to force a reload via "allowlist reload" which is being executed and written into the server's log.
Yet I'm in fact not able to join the server as Ian pointed out in his original message ("you're not invited ..").

If you see any chance of me helping out here feel free to let me know. I'm more than happy to try out a view things.

[itzg]

Though to be fully honest, I haven't tried connecting to the server since the latest
1.20.11 release.

Thanks @SvenLudwig202 that's a very helpful data point. It seems like it is something about that version.

I just pushed a new image that will only remove the allowlist/whitelist files when the ALLOW_LIST_USERS variable set to an empty string.

With that pulled it should now be safe to put back the file you were using FWIW.

[SvenLudwig202]

I can confirm that with the new image my setup does indeed work again and I can connect to my server.

It does seem like the current bds version isn't resolving the allowlist.json for whatever reason. If the xuid are present, like in my case, it does seem to work flawless.

For reference, this is the compose file I'm running right now.

version: '3.4'
services:
bds:
image: itzg/minecraft-bedrock-server
environment:
UID: "1002"
GID: "1002"
EULA: "TRUE"
GAMEMODE: survival
DIFFICULTY: normal
SERVER_NAME: "XXXX Bedrock"
MAX_PLAYERS: "4"
LEVEL_NAME: "Bedrock2"
ALLOW_LIST: "true"
ports:
- 9132:19132/udp
volumes:
- ./data:/data
- ./extra/allowlist.json:/data/allowlist.json
stdin_open: true
tty: true
restart: always

(can't seem to get the spacing to work in either quote or code mode .. please just imagine the correct indentation being there)

[itzg]

Ah, ok, so with name and xuid present it works? I wish there was an API on the bedrock/Xbox side to solve names to xuid. I could add that to the script, if so.

Their own docs say xuid is optional, so it still seems like they broke something. Maybe we wait to see with next version.

[ewolkowicz]

@itzg I updated a bit ealier today (client 1.20.10, server 1.20.11). What @SvenLudwig202 identified was correct but I found another issue. You have to explicitly delete whitelist.json, otherwise you'll still get the "not invited" error. I'm guessing they removed some references to it but still parse it at some point during loading. This is definitely a bug upstream. I haven't tested if adding the same params to the whitelist.json file fixes that as well, but just removing it, switching to allowlist and doing both username and xuid works. Is it worth submitting a PR for a workaround or just waiting to see what Mojang does? (or is there already a bug filed with them?)

[itzg]

Good find! I'd be good with a PR to have the startup script make sure whitelist.json isn't present. I did notice a deprecation log when that file was present.