If you want to be able to play with everyone, regardless of whether they purchased Minecraft or not, do the following:
- Go to the Configuration tab on the server page

- Find “
online-mode
” and set it tofalse

- Click save config
- Restart your server and join
If your variant does not support editing settings from the configuration tab, then you have to edit your config file using WebFTP. A guide can be found here: How to access server files
Note: We recommend you use a whitelist or a login plugin when this setting is set to false, otherwise players can easily pretend to be each other!