From 6d02c62c95c5f6b7323c20b80d20d84480d6ef7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 13:19:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Multiple users --- doc/EN/faq.org | 3 ++ website/EN/faq.html | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/EN/faq.org b/doc/EN/faq.org index 95b48c54..757d9743 100644 --- a/doc/EN/faq.org +++ b/doc/EN/faq.org @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ #+ATTR_HTML: :border -1 | [[file:index.html][Home]] | | [[Why not supply a disk image download?]] | +| [[Can I add more users to the system?]] | | [[Is metadata protected?]] | | [[Why isn't dynamic DNS working?]] | | [[How do I get a domain name?]] | @@ -23,6 +24,8 @@ * Why not supply a disk image download? Shipping a Freedombone disk image ready to install on a flash disk would be easy, but disk images are relatively opaque. It would be quite easy to hide something nasty within a disk image and the user might never know. To guard against that possibility installing via the *freedombone* command is a lot more transparent, since it's really just a bash script. You can check the script code to see exactly what it's doing, and the packages are all downloaded from standard Debian repos (you can even choose which one you trust) or git repos. Doing it this way the system is fully auditable, whereas when shipping a disk image it's harder to be confident that no nefarious extras have been added. +* Can I add more users to the system? +Like any other GNU/Linux system you can add more users. It's easy to add users to Owncloud, XMPP or RedMatrix. However, Freedombone is designed primarily to be a single user system (i.e. a personal server) and if there are multiple users then the number of them is expected to be small - perhaps five or less. Freedombone is not intended to be "/web scale/" in terms of supporting tens or hundreds of users on a single server. Instead, each server can host a small number of users and then the servers federate together as a network of peers. * Is metadata protected? Even when using Freedombone metadata analysis by third parties is still possible. They might have a much harder time knowing what the content is, but they can potentially construct extensive dossiers based upon who communicated with your server when. Metadata leakage is a general problem with most current web systems and it is hoped that more secure technology will become available in future. But for now if metadata protection is your main concern using Freedombone won't help. * Why isn't dynamic DNS working? diff --git a/website/EN/faq.html b/website/EN/faq.html index 12a997a6..cb3bc518 100644 --- a/website/EN/faq.html +++ b/website/EN/faq.html @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ - + @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@