Building Minecraft Server Modifications - Second Edition

Chapter 6. Player Permissions

Player Permissions is one feature that nearly every Bukkit server administrator wants to have on their server. In vanilla Minecraft, you are either an OP (operator), or simply a regular player. With permissions, you can create an infinite number of ranks between the two. There are several permission plugins available, which can be found on the Bukkit or Spigot websites. In the past, developers had to write their own code in order to support one or more of these permission systems. Luckily, the Bukkit API now has a basis for player permissions, which makes our job easier. We no longer need to learn a new API for every permissions plugin that exists. We only need to support Bukkit's universal permissions system, which ...