Authentication Plugin Help

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  • Hello! I apologize if this is the wrong forum category to put this in. I wanted to ask how effective authentication plugins like the one provided here help protect against potentially unwanted people entering the server. Both I and my friend have never done anything huge with servers, so we're sort of clueless about protection measures and the like. Thank you!

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    It doesn't really help against "unwanted people".

    Such plugins usually only ensure that the player who joined the server is really the one he claims to be.

    Enabling cracked mode on a server completely disables the global Minecraft authentication system. If that's the case players can freely choose their name and login as OP. That's what the auth plugins try to prevent.