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| author | Andrew Godwin | 2022-12-15 16:02:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Andrew Godwin | 2022-12-15 16:02:37 -0700 |
| commit | 1a7ffb4bff69aa32dc898c650215cba405031202 (patch) | |
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Add a big warning to secret_key now it's important
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diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst index 3fdda0d..003da03 100644 --- a/docs/installation.rst +++ b/docs/installation.rst @@ -74,6 +74,14 @@ be provided to the containers from the first boot. * ``TAKAHE_SECRET_KEY`` must be a fixed, random value (it's used for internal cryptography). Don't change this unless you want to invalidate all sessions. + .. warning:: + + You **must** keep the value of ``TAKAHE_SECRET_KEY`` unique and secret. Anyone + with this value can modify their session to impersonate any user, including + admins. It should be kept even more secure than your admin passwords, and + should be long, random and completely unguessable. We recommend that it is + at least 64 characters. + * ``TAKAHE_MEDIA_BACKEND`` must be a URI starting with ``local://``, ``s3://`` or ``gcs://``. See :ref:`media_configuration` below for more. |