From 18d7b6064684c60bb4fc9e8c2348f70b028a2d6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: luckyredhot <> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:41:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [Imported from Trac: page FAQ, version 94] --- FAQ.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/FAQ.md b/FAQ.md index ea41e30..838cf72 100644 --- a/FAQ.md +++ b/FAQ.md @@ -210,4 +210,8 @@ You can read the following section for more details: [Performance](https://tahoe **Q30: How can I prevent intruders from using my Tahoe-LAFS web-interface? Even without knowing exact object caps they will be able to see statistics and be able to upload objects.** A: There is no such built-in authorization capability in Tahoe-LAFS. Security is based on secret object caps. -Meanwhile you can forbid unauthorized access to your Tahoe-LAFS WUI by using firewall (iptables, ipfw etc.) and combining it with proxy-server authorization and redirection (nginx, apache, squid etc.) \ No newline at end of file +Meanwhile you can forbid unauthorized access to your Tahoe-LAFS WUI by using firewall (iptables, ipfw etc.) and combining it with proxy-server authorization and redirection (nginx, apache, squid etc.) + +**Q31: I've got multiple users connected to same directory and their experience is really poor. What can I do?** + +A: If many people have write access to the same directories, then they'll probably get failures and stalls a lot, regardless of the frontend, and they might eventually if they keep doing it lose the data, if a bunch of servers get disconnected right when they are doing that. Currently we advise people to adopt a style of usage where each user gets exclusive write-access to one directory, and read-access to the directories of many other users. It is a limitation that we hope to lift in the future. \ No newline at end of file