.\"
-.\" Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Richard Kettlewell
+.\" Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2007 Richard Kettlewell
.\"
.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
arrange that manually.
.PP
There is however an automatic rescan once every 24 hours.
-.SS "How To Configure Authentication"
-The administrator should create \fIpkgconfdir/config.private\fR, make sure it
-is not world-readable, and populate it with \fBallow\fR commands
-listing usernames and passwords. Use
-e.g. \fBpwgen\fR(1) to generate random passwords. Passwords should
-then be distributed to users.
.PP
-Each user should create the file \fI~/.disorder/passwd\fR
-and make sure it is not world-readable. Having done so
-they should add a \fBpassword\fR command to it giving their password (and
-optionally a \fBusername\fR command if their DisOrder username is not the
-same as their login name).
-.SS Locales
+A \fBroot\fR login is automatically created on startup if it does not
+exist. If \fBdisorder\fR(1) is run as root on the same machine as the
+server it is capable of extracting the password from the database
+directly.
+.SS "Locales"
.B disorderd
is locale-aware. If you do not set the locale correctly then it may
not handle non-ASCII data properly.