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authortv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-07 22:35:09 +0100
committertv <tv@krebsco.de>2026-11-07 22:35:09 +0100
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access: authorization at the API
Every request is judged by the registry the node holds: store reads pruned to what the user may read, writes refused where it may not, admin endpoints by protocol capabilities. Without a registry, as before (--protocol-writers for protocol data). Auth plan M1.
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@@ -80,9 +80,11 @@ htpasswd = "/etc/continuum/htpasswd"
# trusted-proxies = ["127.0.0.1", "::1", "unix"]
# HTTP API users (from htpasswd or user-header) who may write protocol data under /store/_continuum
-# (remake records, members, forget records), e.g. to repair a stuck remake. Such writes
-# act on the whole swarm and are logged. Epoch metadata and the swarm ID are never
-# writable.
+# (remake records, members, forget records), e.g. to repair a stuck remake, in a swarm
+# without a user registry. Such writes act on the whole swarm and are logged. Epoch
+# metadata and the swarm ID are never writable. With a registry its capabilities decide
+# instead (docs/access.md); on a genesis node, those of htpasswd's users named here may
+# do everything in the new swarm's registry.
# protocol-writers = ["alice"]
# With genesis: the new swarm's first users, each may do everything, protocol data and