Bug Uplink required every time

[xNxExOx]

Hello,

I have my own mini server.
settings:

...
USE_STARMADE_AUTHENTICATION = true //allow star-made.org authentication
REQUIRE_STARMADE_AUTHENTICATION = false //require star-made.org authentication (USE_STARMADE_AUTHENTICATION must be true)
PROTECTED_NAMES_BY_ACCOUNT = 2 //How many player names a player may protect with his account (if exceeded, the player name, that was logged in the longest time ago gets unprotected)
NT_SPAM_PROTECT_EXCEPTIONS = 127.0.0.1 //ips excepted from spam control (separate multiple with comma) (default is localhost)
NT_SPAM_PROTECT_ACTIVE = false //enables connection spawn protection (flooding servers with login attempts)
...

I using only one computer, only one name, but I need to use "Uplink To Star-Made.org" every time I want to join my server "localhost:4242", if I don't uplink I get
"Login Failed"
"Server Reject: this login name is protected on this server!
..."
I must click "Uplink To Star-Made.org", fill User Name and Password and I check "Save Login (encrypted)", then it allow me to join.

I do not know if the problem is in server or client, but I reinstall both multiple times, but no change, I must uplink every time I want to play ( multiple times per day).

 

[Megacrafter127]

Simple: since you were uplinked once, and USE_STARMADE_AUTHENTICATION is true, your ingame-name is protected, and you need to be uplinked in order to access it. change USE_STARMADE_AUTHENTICATION to false and you won't have that problem anymore.

 

[xNxExOx]

yes but then the username will be unprotected.
I was meant by:

I have my own mini server.

not singleplayer, but a server for 20 or 30 players.(less than 100 is mini for me

 

[Megacrafter127]

Well, then there is no way around it. To my knowledge it is not intended to have any connection regardless from where be exempt from uplink check.

 

[xNxExOx]

"Save Login (encrypted)" probably not work.

 

[Jaaskinal]

"Save Login (encrypted)" probably not work.

That works for me.

 

[xNxExOx]

I think it work for others because I find no report with similar problem.
But I have no idea what I can have wrong.

 

[thakyZ]

Its a glitch that I get sometimes. The way to fix it is to go into AppData/Roaming/.starmade and delete the file called cert

 

[xNxExOx]

This not help. The same is done by "Delete Saved Login".
After file is deleted, I use uplink and new file is created with name and password hash(or something), but if I leave server instantly and try it again I must use uplink again.

 

[Valck]

As far as I can tell, this seems to happen when the server and client are running on the same machine.

I've had a "dedicated" server running on the same machine I use for the client (as the OP seems to, or anyone in single player mode), and experienced the exact same problem of the server not accepting my credentials except when I uplinked every time I started the client.
After I moved the server process to its own physical machine — old laptops ftw ; ) — I can now just connect without having to uplink more than once.

Of course I can't tell whether there are other scenarios where that happens, but physically separating client and server processes "fixed" it for me.