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authorAaron Raimist <aaron@raim.ist>2021-05-11 08:03:23 -0500
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-05-11 14:03:23 +0100
commitdc6366a9bd370a0f772f376a2053c0ce48cb6607 (patch)
tree79b857378e42988bfed8ef2d65b883473f73e820 /docs
parentAdd debug logging for issue #9533 (#9959) (diff)
downloadsynapse-dc6366a9bd370a0f772f376a2053c0ce48cb6607.tar.xz
Add config option to hide device names over federation (#9945)
Now that cross signing exists there is much less of a need for other people to look at devices and verify them individually. This PR adds a config option to allow you to prevent device display names from being shared with other servers.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Raimist <aaron@raim.ist>
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@@ -741,6 +741,12 @@ acme:
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 #allow_profile_lookup_over_federation: false
 
+# Uncomment to disable device display name lookup over federation. By default, the
+# Federation API allows other homeservers to obtain device display names of any user
+# on this homeserver. Defaults to 'true'.
+#
+#allow_device_name_lookup_over_federation: false
+
 
 ## Caching ##