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My whitelist is malfunctioning. When my friend joins he gets disconnected with a message "You are not whitelisted in this server" and after i whitelist him on both the console and the players tab (even tried editing the whitelist.json) it still wont work. I use PaperMC 1.16.5.
Thank you! 
Have you restarted the server after that?
Is the server cracked?
Is the server cracked?
Yes it is but as far as I know cracked doesn't affect the whitelist system.
I heard of some issues with it frankly, afaik adding their UUID helps
Try removing all players from the whitelist and re-add them while the server is offline.
Try removing all players from the whitelist and re-add them while the server is offline.
I'll try that. I will report if it worked or not.
