identity/addresses.yml
Every setting of identity/addresses.yml.
identity/addresses.yml decides which IP addresses Identica keeps for accounts, how it stores and compares them, and for how long. Account addresses explains what is kept and what reads it. A reload applies the file to new registrations and logins; addresses that are already stored follow a changed grouping, storage or ignored at the next cleanup, when Identica starts and once a day.
record: ALL
storage: PLAIN
secret: "3f9c…"
ignored: []
grouping:
ipv4: 32
ipv6: 64
retention:
registration: "0m"
idle: "90d"
maxPerAccount: 20Takes"ALL", "REGISTRATION", or "NONE"
Default"ALL"
Affectswhich addresses are kept
ALL keeps the address an account registered from and every address it logs in from. REGISTRATION keeps only the address it registered from, which is all the sentinel's account limit needs. NONE keeps nothing, and the account limit then limits nothing.
Takes"PLAIN" or "HASHED"
Default"PLAIN"
Affectswhether addresses are stored as they are or as hashes
Hashed addresses can still be counted and compared, but nobody can read them back from the database without secret. Switching to HASHED hashes the addresses stored so far at the next cleanup. Switching back cannot recover them: hashed addresses stay hashed and only count for the addresses they were hashed from while secret stays the same.
Warning
Takesa string
Defaulta random value drawn when the file is first written
Affectsthe key of the hashes when storage is HASHED
Proxies that share a database need the same secret, or each counts only the addresses it hashed itself. Changing it makes every stored hash count as a different address. Without a secret, hashed storage keeps no address and warns at startup.
Takesa list of addresses and ranges, such as 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.0/8
Default[]
Affectswhich addresses are never kept
List the addresses that are not players, such as a front proxy that does not forward the players' addresses. Addresses that are already stored and become ignored are deleted at the next cleanup. An entry that is not an address or range is skipped with a warning.
Takesan integer from 0 to 32
Default32
Affectshow many leading bits two IPv4 addresses share to count as one address
32 compares whole addresses. 24 counts every address of a /24 block as one.
Takesan integer from 0 to 128
Default64
Affectshow many leading bits two IPv6 addresses share to count as one address
A home connection usually gets a whole /64 block and can switch addresses inside it at will, so comparing whole IPv6 addresses would let one player look like many.
Takesa duration, or 0m
Default"0m"
Affectshow long the address an account registered from counts as its registration address
0m keeps it as long as the account exists. With a duration, it counts as the registration address for that long after the registration and is then kept like any other address, until idle removes it.
Takesa duration, or 0m
Default"90d"
Affectshow long an address is kept after the account last used it
0m keeps addresses forever. The registration address is not removed while it counts as such.
Takesan integer, 0 or greater
Default20
Affectshow many addresses one account keeps besides its registration address
Past the limit, the address the account used longest ago is removed. 0 keeps every address.