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Allow write-only access to a room #2485

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IngoHohmann opened this issue Oct 2, 2017 · 3 comments
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Allow write-only access to a room #2485

IngoHohmann opened this issue Oct 2, 2017 · 3 comments

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@IngoHohmann
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I see many use-cases, where only sending into a room is needed:

  • Monitoring systems
  • IoT devices which ony send messages
  • Web-Forms sending into Matrix
  • ...

In the spirit of only giving the minimal set of rights, these accounts should only have write-acess, so if someone gets a hold of the used access_token, he will not be able to read messages.

This point is especially important for usage with web-forms.

@turt2live
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Set the power level to send messages to be 2.
Set the power level for new users to be 0 (default).
Set the power level of the accounts you want to be able to speak to 2 or higher.

@IngoHohmann
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IngoHohmann commented Oct 2, 2017

This means normal users would be read-only,
special users could read and write.

I want users who can send, to not be able to read messages in the room.

@reivilibre
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This would need something to be specced up. But a workaround might be to use asymmetric crypto so that messages can only be decrypted by a certain client with the keys.

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