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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index da0102bfaa..714ad6443d 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -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 |