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Notes on blocking domains and users

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| CTRL-c CTRL-h | Highlight |
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* Blocking controls
The biggest hazard with GNU Social is that it's part of a public federated communications system. This means that conversations and replies from other servers may end up in your "whole known network" stream. The internet being what it is, some of these could be undesirable. You can block individual users or entire domains by going to the *Administrator control panel* and selecting *Domain and user blocking*, then adding or removing entries. This blocks domains at the firewall level and also at the level of database and file storage.
If you want to block a particular user then select *Block a domain or user* and enter the user in the format *username@domaintoblock* (similar to an email address).
doc/EN/app_postactiv.org
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To see the login password for your site go to *Passwords* on the *Administrator control panel* and select the appropriate username and app. The passwords will be different for each user and may not be the same as the password which you used to originally ssh into the system.
Navigate to your PostActiv domain name and log in.
* Blocking controls
The biggest hazard with PostActiv is that it's part of a public federated communications system. This means that conversations and replies from other servers may end up in your "/whole known network/" stream. The internet being what it is, some of these could be undesirable. You can block individual users or entire domains by going to the *Administrator control panel* and selecting *Domain and user blocking*, then adding or removing entries. This blocks domains at the firewall level and also at the level of database and file storage.
If you want to block a particular user then select *Block a domain or user* and enter the user in the format *username@domaintoblock* (similar to an email address).
website/EN/app_gnusocial.html
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<!-- 2017-04-11 Tue 21:13 -->
<!-- 2017-04-27 Thu 15:39 -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title></title>
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<div id="outline-container-orgc680dd2" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="orgc680dd2">Installation</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orgc680dd2">
<div id="outline-container-org9b60c2d" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="org9b60c2d">Installation</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org9b60c2d">
<p>
Log into your system with:
</p>
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</div>
<div id="outline-container-org41dfd7f" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="org41dfd7f">Initial setup</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org41dfd7f">
<div id="outline-container-org8e7708d" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="org8e7708d">Initial setup</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org8e7708d">
<p>
If you have just obtained a Lets Encrypt certificate as above then go to <b>About</b> on the administrator control panel and you should see your GNU Social domain listed there along with an onion address. You can then navigate to your site in a browser.
</p>
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</div>
<div id="outline-container-org5508d10" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="org5508d10">Using with Emacs</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org5508d10">
<div id="outline-container-org1384126" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="org1384126">Using with Emacs</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org1384126">
<div class="org-center">
<div class="figure">
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</table>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outline-container-org15f73b7" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="org15f73b7">Blocking controls</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org15f73b7">
<p>
The biggest hazard with GNU Social is that it's part of a public federated communications system. This means that conversations and replies from other servers may end up in your "whole known network" stream. The internet being what it is, some of these could be undesirable. You can block individual users or entire domains by going to the <b>Administrator control panel</b> and selecting <b>Domain and user blocking</b>, then adding or removing entries. This blocks domains at the firewall level and also at the level of database and file storage.
</p>
<p>
If you want to block a particular user then select <b>Block a domain or user</b> and enter the user in the format <b>username@domaintoblock</b> (similar to an email address).
</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="postamble" class="status">
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website/EN/app_postactiv.html
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"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<!-- 2016-11-14 Mon 21:44 -->
<!-- 2017-04-27 Thu 15:39 -->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
<title></title>
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pre.src-fortran:before { content: 'Fortran'; }
pre.src-gnuplot:before { content: 'gnuplot'; }
pre.src-haskell:before { content: 'Haskell'; }
pre.src-hledger:before { content: 'hledger'; }
pre.src-java:before { content: 'Java'; }
pre.src-js:before { content: 'Javascript'; }
pre.src-latex:before { content: 'LaTeX'; }
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@licstart The following is the entire license notice for the
JavaScript code in this tag.
Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2012-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
The JavaScript code in this tag is free software: you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
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PostActiv is a fork of <a href="./app_gnusocial.html">GNU Social</a> which includes some extra fixes and optimisations to improve performance. It federates just like GNU Social does and so whether you choose GNU Social or PostActiv is really just down to personal prefernce.
</p>
<div id="outline-container-org0c08778" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="org0c08778">Installation</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org0c08778">
<div id="outline-container-org6b70798" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="org6b70798">Installation</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org6b70798">
<p>
Log into your system with:
</p>
<div class="org-src-container">
<pre class="src src-bash">ssh myusername@mydomain -p 2222
</pre>
<pre><code class="src src-bash">ssh myusername@mydomain -p 2222
</code></pre>
</div>
<p>
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</div>
</div>
<div id="outline-container-orgca84b5b" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="orgca84b5b">Initial setup</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orgca84b5b">
<div id="outline-container-org6e69d34" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="org6e69d34">Initial setup</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-org6e69d34">
<p>
If you have just obtained a Lets Encrypt certificate as above then go to <b>About</b> on the administrator control panel and you should see your Postactiv domain listed there along with an onion address. You can then navigate to your site in a browser.
</p>
<p>
If you installed the system using a disk image then you can log in using the username and password which was originally shown when you installed the system. If you didn't install from a disk image then a new random password will be generated for each site and stored within a readme file. If you need to view that file then exit to the user control panel, select <b>Exit to the command line</b> and then run:
To see the login password for your site go to <b>Passwords</b> on the <b>Administrator control panel</b> and select the appropriate username and app. The passwords will be different for each user and may not be the same as the password which you used to originally ssh into the system.
</p>
<div class="org-src-container">
<pre class="src src-bash">editor README
</pre>
<p>
Navigate to your PostActiv domain name and log in.
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="outline-container-orgcf16494" class="outline-2">
<h2 id="orgcf16494">Blocking controls</h2>
<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-orgcf16494">
<p>
Navigate to your PostActiv domain name and log in.
The biggest hazard with PostActiv is that it's part of a public federated communications system. This means that conversations and replies from other servers may end up in your "<i>whole known network</i>" stream. The internet being what it is, some of these could be undesirable. You can block individual users or entire domains by going to the <b>Administrator control panel</b> and selecting <b>Domain and user blocking</b>, then adding or removing entries. This blocks domains at the firewall level and also at the level of database and file storage.
</p>
<p>
If you want to block a particular user then select <b>Block a domain or user</b> and enter the user in the format <b>username@domaintoblock</b> (similar to an email address).
</p>
</div>
</div>
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