Setting up a server

[Jammet]

Here's a different question...

So far, I have been running my server for friends, and friends of friends, but I think I would like to open it to the general public.

By default you can only connect to the server if the whitelist has your name. Is there a way to instead, set it up so that only people in the whitelist can manipulte the world? That way I could verify players manually and add them to the whitelist if I think they're fine. I don't want to go all out public where everybody can do anything right from the get-go, it's a recipe for disaster.