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@@ -18,14 +18,16 @@ It is at `/admin/dashboard` on the node's HTTP API, by default
(`--user-header`) or one logged in on the page `/login`, which a browser opening the
dashboard without one is sent to. There, a user logs in with its password
(`--htpasswd`, the same file the API's basic authentication takes, which the dashboard
-never asks for itself: no browser password prompt), or with a token: from `continuum-signed login` (by key,
+never asks for itself, nor takes from the browser: no browser password prompt, the
+node never challenges a browser), or with a token: from `continuum-signed login` (by key,
[`access.md`](access.md), Tokens), or any other. The page keeps a session for the
browser, a cookie no script reads and no other site's page sends, renewed while the
-dashboard is open; it ends with the token's lifetime, or with "Log out of this
-browser" on the login page, or "log out" in the user's menu on the dashboard (its
+dashboard is open (half way through the token's life, looked at again when the page
+shows, so after the computer slept too) until the login ends (`--session-lifetime`),
+then back to the login page; it ends with the token's lifetime once not renewed, or
+with "Log out of this browser" on the login page, or "log out" in the user's menu on the dashboard (its
name, top right), which ends this browser's session only. Where the page got in by
-what it can't end, the browser's password or the proxy's, "log out" is greyed, and
-says how instead. The menu's "credentials…" shows the user's keys, each by its name
+what it can't end, the proxy's, "log out" is greyed, and says how instead. The menu's "credentials…" shows the user's keys, each by its name
and as much of the key as fits the dialog, cut in the middle where it doesn't (its end
and comment always shown, the whole in its tooltip), and `edit` at the right: its name
and `.pub` line in fields, to save, or to delete with the red `Delete` (on a second