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diff --git a/docs/api.md b/docs/api.md index 8c4a534..803e457 100644 --- a/docs/api.md +++ b/docs/api.md @@ -230,9 +230,11 @@ Load balancers can send requests to any ready node: `/ready` is the check. Every change records the node that committed it (as its Automerge author) and, for a write through the API, the user who wrote it (in its message, as a trailer like Git's -`Signed-off-by:`: `User: alice`), with when (by the writer's clock). User names are -each node's own (`--htpasswd`, or its proxy's), so who wrote it is that user at that node: `alice` on -two nodes is one person only where their operators make it so, which nothing checks. +`Signed-off-by:`: `User: alice`), with when (by the writer's clock). The user is a name +in the swarm's registry ([`access.md`](access.md)), as the writing node says: nothing +signs it, so a member could name another. In a swarm without a registry, user names +are each node's own (`--htpasswd`, or its proxy's): `alice` on two nodes is one person +only where their operators make it so, which nothing checks. `GET /admin/changes` lists them, newest first, with the paths each touched; `GET /admin/changes/settings` those that touched what is at `settings`. |