Whoa there buddy! Your node.js is WAY too up-to-date to run this baby. Back it up to something.
Oh, you got the server running! That’s really cool, you must be so proud! All you have to do is go to this port on your localhost and you’re in! See? There it is, the login screen. Default is admin admin. Sometimes your root.
Oh wait. You didn’t think PAM authorization was going to make it that easy, did you!
Geez, this is what we want people switching to?
Oh the joys of Linux. The simplest things take the longest and you always end up learning some random ecosystem you never wanted to learn. Eventually you will find some weird set or circumstances that make everything work in which case you will never touch it again. Then 5-10 years from now you will finally realize all the mistakes you made when you no longer care about the problem you are trying to solve.
What does this have to do with linux? You can run that stuff on FreeBSD and go take out your misplaced frustrations on their forum just as well…
So the software you are trying to configure is using an outdated version of nodejs, has a poor default username/password combination, and doesn’t implement PAM by default/easily.
Yes, I definitely want people to use Linux if they would like to, but perhaps not the node.js web application your complaints actually refer to which don’t seem to have much at all if anything to do with Linux itself.
If your only real complaint on the OS side is that nodejs is too up to date, perhaps consider raising your concerns on the Mine-OS projects github instead of directing your anger at a tangentially related operating system. It’s like getting mad at your cars engine when you are having trouble figuring out how to roll down the new windows you just had installed at a third-party body shop.
I don’t know if the critique is well deserved, considering that “we” probably don’t “want people switching to”… a minecraft server management utility built in nodejs that’s also barely mantained.
Yeah, I think it’s clear that I really didn’t get the reasoning behind “we want people switching to”.
We’re talking about a server side utility, and whoever is using that should either have a bit of knowledge about servers, or be versatile enough to learn even if just by getting their hands dirty - on that regard, one should use a virtualisation system so that they can freely manage their OS and package versions without breaking everything in the meantime.To contribute to this discussion, I tried CubeCoders AMP and never looked back.
Installation was relatively easy as it’s a one-liner installation script, but you have to purchase a license to set up a game server.
Mod management isn’t the best, as there is no real utility other than the file manager, but I understand that’s an almost impossible issue to solve because of how many configuration variants exist.
I had three instances running on three different systems at one point, even if just to host other game servers since it’s not limited to MC.
