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@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ It is at `/admin/dashboard` on the node's HTTP API, by default
`http://127.0.0.1:3000/admin/dashboard`, for a user a reverse proxy names
(`--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`), or with a token: from `continuum-signed login` (by key,
+(`--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,
[`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