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When you have some variety of automation of maintenance of your Synapse server, an explicit API token can have several benefits over an "admin" user and access token:
It does not create a device/etc which is not actually a Matrix client, and scripts/tools don't need to be able to log in to a Matrix server to get a valid key (or have it provided)
The creation of a user is not required (e.g. bootstrapping), the addition of a unique secret token in the configuration file can be used to perform these tasks
It is not tied to the lifespan of user logins (which may be purged)
It can have its own lifespan rules that may not make sense for user access tokens (e.g. use-until date for short-lived tokens, or extremely long-lived tokens)
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This issue has been migrated from #5323.
When you have some variety of automation of maintenance of your Synapse server, an explicit API token can have several benefits over an "admin" user and access token:
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: