I know theres a few guides on account creation, but I want to do things a little different. I've set up a private server, but it's only going to be played among friends. I don't really want to worry about setting up a website with an account creation database. I'm too much of a noob and will mess it up in ways you could only imagine. What I want to do is manually make accounts for my friends. At the moment I've only got the admin account and I want to be able to create a few extra accounts so friends can join in. For example - for a friend of mine, Chris, I'd just simply make an account with the username and password "Chris" for him to log into and play. Is it possible to just make accounts manually like this and is this way easier than doing the whole website, database, install this and register with that and open these ports in your router etc? I'm just looking for a easier way of adding accounts to my server because of me being such a noob....and a little too time restricted to learn how to do it all up awesome like others here have done. I've looked around but only found guides on doing it the website way.
I've got it all working happily with Hamachi and can log into the admin account from another computer without any hassles (so far). So all that works ok.