For creating a whitelist for your room, you have to create a new group in your channel, called whatever you want and then add the users to it, you want to be able to enter your room.
Then in the permissions tab you have to create a new rule that says @all and check the box deny on enter the room permission, now nobody can enter your room. But you now need to create a new rule to allow your whitelisted Users again, create it below the first rule and enter the following: @yourgroup and allow "enter" again. ("yourgroup" has to be replaced with the name you have chosen for your whitelist group)
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