From 2c817cb1c579aa6d47cab18edf46867669518597 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Hunt Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 15:58:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add another advantage --- proposals/2778-appservice-login.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/proposals/2778-appservice-login.md b/proposals/2778-appservice-login.md index 52c64475..1b7c45a3 100644 --- a/proposals/2778-appservice-login.md +++ b/proposals/2778-appservice-login.md @@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ which means bridge users need to be able to generate a device on demand. In the have used the bridge bot's device for all bridge users in the room, but this causes problems should the bridge wish to only join ghosts to a room (e.g. for DMs). +Another advantage this provides is that an appservice can now be used to generate access tokens for +any user in it's namespace without having to set a password for that user, which may be useful in the +case of software where maintaining password(s) in the configuration is undesirable. + ## Proposal A new `type` is to be added to `POST /login`.