X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/cd4a811b896da640e5b8ddca7e515f19085932d4..e85a787d224545accc7ee1e8cdda0145dd9ac806:/doc/install/install-api-server.html.textile.liquid diff --git a/doc/install/install-api-server.html.textile.liquid b/doc/install/install-api-server.html.textile.liquid index b8442eb060..ca55be53e3 100644 --- a/doc/install/install-api-server.html.textile.liquid +++ b/doc/install/install-api-server.html.textile.liquid @@ -48,25 +48,20 @@ h3. Tokens
    SystemRootToken: "$system_root_token"
     ManagementToken: "$management_token"
-    API:
-      RailsSessionSecretToken: "$rails_secret_token"
     Collections:
-      BlobSigningKey: "blob_signing_key"
+      BlobSigningKey: "$blob_signing_key"
 
-@SystemRootToken@ is used by Arvados system services to authenticate as the system (root) user when communicating with the API server. +These secret tokens are used to authenticate messages between Arvados components. +* @SystemRootToken@ is used by Arvados system services to authenticate as the system (root) user when communicating with the API server. +* @ManagementToken@ is used to authenticate access to system metrics. +* @Collections.BlobSigningKey@ is used to control access to Keep blocks. -@ManagementToken@ is used to authenticate access to system metrics. - -@API.RailsSessionSecretToken@ is required by the API server. - -@Collections.BlobSigningKey@ is used to control access to Keep blocks. - -You can generate a random token for each of these items at the command line like this: +Each token should be a string of at least 50 alphanumeric characters. You can generate a suitable token with the following command: -
~$ tr -dc 0-9a-zA-Z </dev/urandom | head -c50; echo
+
~$ tr -dc 0-9a-zA-Z </dev/urandom | head -c50 ; echo