Last Updated 3/16/24 Making a private Rust server is useful when you don’t want randoms joining your wipe. In this guide, you will learn how to make a server private for a specific Steam Group. This is useful if you are looking to keep your server exclusive to you and a group of friends.
1

Create a Steam Group.

You can create a Steam Group at https://steamcommunity.com/actions/GroupCreateInvite all the people that you would like to have whitelist access to your server into this Steam Group.
2

Copy the link ID for your Steam Group.

To copy the link ID for your Steam Group:
  1. Go to the profile page for the Steam Group you want to give server access to.
  2. Right click on the page and “Copy Page URL”
  3. Paste the URL into a new page, append the following to the end of the URL: /memberslistxml/?xml=1
Example: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/atomicnetworkss turns into https://steamcommunity.com/groups/atomicnetworkss/memberslistxml/?xml=1
4. At the top of this page, you will see a value labeled groupID64. Copy the 17 digit value.
Example: <groupID64>103582791467876547</groupID64> turns into 103582791467876547
5. Take note of your 17 digit groupID64 value. You will need it for a later step in this tutorial.
3

Navigate to Atomic Panel

Click here to navigate to Atomic Panel. You can log in using your account credentials that you received following checkout. The credentials email is sent to the email address on file in the Billing Panel.
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4

Navigate to the File Manager

5

Open the 'serverauto.cfg' file.

Navigate to the pathway /home/container/server/rust/cfg/serverauto.cfg
6

Add 'Server.steamgroup' to your file.

Add a line to this file called Server.steamgroup <GROUPID> where:<GROUPID> = The 17 digit groupid64 value collected in step 2 of this guide.
7

Save the `serverauto.cfg` file and restart your Rust server.

Once you have configured your private server, restart your Rust server for the whitelist permissions to be updated.
Congratulations! You have just created a private Rust server!
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