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Add note about updating your signing keys (ie. "the auto thing")

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David Baker 2015-04-24 15:25:28 +01:00
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@ -128,6 +128,15 @@ To set up your homeserver, run (in your virtualenv, as before)::
Substituting your host and domain name as appropriate.
This will generate you a config file that you can then customise, but it will
also generate a set of keys for you. These keys will allow your Home Server to
identify itself to other Home Servers, so don't lose or delete them. It would be
wise to back them up somewhere safe. If, for whatever reason, you do need to
change your Home Server's keys, you may find that other Home Servers have the
old key cached. If you update the signing key, you should change the name of the
key in the <server name>.signing.key file (the second word, which by default is
, 'auto') to something different.
By default, registration of new users is disabled. You can either enable
registration in the config by specifying ``enable_registration: true``
(it is then recommended to also set up CAPTCHA), or