Hello,
I just started up a server and noticed a bug that you may not be away of. Here are lines 17 thorough 19 of server-settings.json
Line 19 is the password. Notice the error calls out server-settings.json:19
"_comment_credentials": "Your factorio.com login credentials. Required for games with visibility public",
"username": "",
"password": "",
If you use a password that has special characters in it, the server will not start.
The password was "]?a^Vo"l07Gh" at the time of the test. This was a valid password for factorio.com and for logging into the game client, but could not be used for initializing the server.
Best,
tgaze