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authortv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-07 22:35:21 +0100
committertv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-07 22:35:21 +0100
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access: --bootstrap-keys
The first users' SSH keys, recorded at genesis with their entries, so a swarm can be strict from its start. Auth plan M7.
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A swarm gets a registry from its start if its genesis node is given its first users,
`--bootstrap-users`: it records them, with the swarm ID, in its first change, each with
everything (`[]` and `["_continuum"]`). Other users, of its `--htpasswd` or any node's,
-may do nothing until added (the genesis node warns of those of its `--htpasswd`).
+may do nothing until added (the genesis node warns of those of its `--htpasswd`). With
+`--bootstrap-keys alice=ssh-ed25519\ AAAA…\ laptop` it records their keys too, so they
+log in by key and sign values from the start: a swarm whose first user then writes the
+policy (Values signed by their users, below) is strict from its start.
Without it, the swarm has no registry: its users are all alike (A swarm without a
registry, below), until someone gives it one. `--protocol-writers` counts in
both: without a registry, as who may write protocol data; with one, to set it right