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| author | Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> | 2021-11-24 22:34:15 -0700 |
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| committer | Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> | 2021-11-24 22:34:15 -0700 |
| commit | fb5d091667dd5db488d0bba2c4fa2e2e0f264572 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d7a2eb7f6025eb7045e8850cf7086e2b997d8a9 /pith/pine.hlp | |
| parent | 4b63640c8e01ae6222663d412ff1625e3b4ba3b5 (diff) | |
| download | alpine-fb5d091667dd5db488d0bba2c4fa2e2e0f264572.tar.xz | |
* Clear up warnings and update documentation.
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diff --git a/pith/pine.hlp b/pith/pine.hlp index 78e56236..8b5297d8 100644 --- a/pith/pine.hlp +++ b/pith/pine.hlp @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ with help text for the config screen and the composer that didn't have any reasonable place to be called from. Dummy change to get revision in pine.hlp ============= h_revision ================= -Alpine Commit 623 2021-11-23 22:28:10 +Alpine Commit 624 2021-11-24 22:33:48 ============= h_news ================= <HTML> <HEAD> @@ -16608,18 +16608,16 @@ source code of this project is located at <BODY> <H1>Tenant Explained</H1> -The tenant is a way in which a service can either restrict an app to access -only certain portions of its service. For example, a service may allow -an app to have access to your work data, or school data, and not every app -is allowed to access this data, or the access is not allowed for all accounts, -but only those restructed in the tenant. - -<P> When Alpine registers with an email service provider, it does so with the -intention that you can use Alpine for any of your needs (work, school or -personal), and the client-id and tenant that it uses would allow you access to -only your work email, say, and not your personal email, because the app is -trusted only at work, and so the client-id and tenant are good for that -organization only. +The tenant is a way in which a an app can be restricted. Alpine by default +has no restrictions, which means that it can be used to access any service; +however, a system administrator might register their own app and make it +available only to those in their organization. + +<P> +This setting allows a system administrator to register Alpine with a different +client-id and client-secret and further restrict access to only authorized +users. + <P> <End of help on this topic> </BODY> |