Account authentication

[edazpotato]

This is the first major feature that we need to work towards. It involves:

• Users being able to see the server as online.
• Handling the user connecting.
• Authenticating the user with the Mojang session server (Documentation).

[CyberFlameGO]

“…we will need to dissect the vanilla server to see how it handles Microsoft accounts.”

As far as I’m aware, all the changes made to Minecraft authentication (as in, its migration to Microsoft) will be done on the backend

[edazpotato]

I was under the impression that we would need to implement Microsoft OAuth2 to sign-in users using Microsft. Keep in mind that users who have brought an account within the last ~6 months already use a Microsoft account to log in, so we can start working on this straight away.

[edazpotato]

Looking at this page which I just found, it looks like the server-side stuff is the same, as after logging in with Microsoft you get an old-fashioned Minecraft token.

[CyberFlameGO]

I was under the impression that we would need to implement Microsoft OAuth2 to sign-in users using Microsft(sic). Keep in mind that users who have brought an account within the last ~6 months already use a Microsoft account to log in, so we can start working on this straight away.

I’m pretty sure that’s only for clients, instead of the old system.

Looking at this page which I just found, it looks like the server-side stuff is the same, as after logging in with Microsoft you get an old-fashioned Minecraft token.

Yeah that’s what I’d thought