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diff --git a/docs/access.md b/docs/access.md index b9e0296..cd11723 100644 --- a/docs/access.md +++ b/docs/access.md @@ -32,14 +32,11 @@ password hashes: every member reads the document). ## A new swarm -Its genesis node records the first users, with the swarm ID, in its first change: - -* those of `--bootstrap-users`, each with everything (`[]` and `["_continuum"]`); -* unset: the users of its `--htpasswd` with `[]`, and those of them, or of the - proxy's, in `--protocol-writers` with `["_continuum"]` too. - -A swarm nobody could manage doesn't start: with none of them with `["_continuum"]`, -`--genesis` is refused, naming both options. +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"]`), and the other users of its `--htpasswd` with +`[]`. Without it, the swarm has no registry, and is as swarms were before: users all +alike (An existing swarm, below), until someone gives it one. ## At the HTTP API |