From: Brian Warner Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:36:54 +0000 (-0800) Subject: FTP-and-SFTP.rst: minor edits X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/vdrive/%22file://%22news.html/%22?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6ce14241d0e4e386b1fd2f09c5bd948e33817ef8;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git FTP-and-SFTP.rst: minor edits --- diff --git a/docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.rst b/docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.rst index 18917a2d..8edb2f8c 100644 --- a/docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.rst +++ b/docs/frontends/FTP-and-SFTP.rst @@ -5,11 +5,12 @@ Tahoe-LAFS FTP and SFTP Frontends 1. `FTP/SFTP Background`_ 2. `Tahoe-LAFS Support`_ 3. `Creating an Account File`_ -4. `Configuring FTP Access`_ -5. `Configuring SFTP Access`_ -6. `Dependencies`_ -7. `Immutable and mutable files`_ -8. `Known Issues`_ +4. `Running An Account Server (accounts.url)`_ +5. `Configuring FTP Access`_ +6. `Configuring SFTP Access`_ +7. `Dependencies`_ +8. `Immutable and Mutable Files`_ +9. `Known Issues`_ FTP/SFTP Background @@ -73,8 +74,8 @@ these strings. Now add an 'accounts.file' directive to your tahoe.cfg file, as described in the next sections. -accounts.url Directive -====================== +Running An Account Server (accounts.url) +======================================== The accounts.url directive allows access requests to be controlled by an HTTP-based login service, useful for centralized deployments. This was @@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ fields, with three parameters: presents this argument as "email" rather than "username"). * passwd: PASSWORD -And should return a single string that either contains a Tahoe rootcap +It should return a single string that either contains a Tahoe rootcap (URI:DIR2:...), or "0" to indicate a login failure. Tahoe-LAFS recommends the service be secure, preferably localhost-only. This