[.13.3] Lan Linux headless server suddenly requiring login

[Flanks]

I have been running a headless linux server for a long time, for me and my friends to play on.
today i tried to update the game from .13.1 to .13.3 to try to fix the occasional desync.
unfortunately now the game is requiring us to be logged in to join the server.
the only problem with this is, we lose our items/equipment because we had been playing purely on the steam version with no factorio.com accounts, and thus have different names when logged in.

is this option somewhere? or a server command line switch?
in the mean time i have been forced to downgrade the server back to .13.1, at least until we start over again and wont lose items due to name changes.

[xavizus]

Hi Flanks!

In your Data folder (in the Factorio folder) you got a server-settings.example.json file. copy that file and rename it to server-settings.json and edit it, you want to change

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"verify_user_identity" : true

to

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"verify_user_identity" : false

When this is changed, you change your startup command to: (Change the paths if it's different)

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factorio --start-server /opt/factorio/saves/MySaves.zip --server-settings /opt/factorio/data/server-settings.json