From 4e605d1648ab9bc797cc179444d52a97620d627d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kageru Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 23:35:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update readme --- README.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 321932e..876c45d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ Almost as good as ncmpcpp. Evidently. ## Seriously, why? -I noticed a use for this. +I saw a use for this. More than once did people ask me (or someone else) -to restart a game server, a long-running script, a discord bot, etc. +to interrupt a long-running script, restart a game server, a discord bot, etc. because something was broken, and restarting it was the easiest way to ‘fix’ it. The idea here is to give people you trust a way to selectively run certain commands on a server. @@ -19,3 +19,7 @@ The only user input are the triggers in discord messages that are then checked a No message content is ever executed, neither directly nor indirectly. Every command is limited to one or multiple users. See the example config for more information. + +Obviously, this can still be a security issue if you give people the wrong commands to play with, +but if you only use it to restart a few systemd units, it should be fine. +Your moderators will thank you, and the nightly pings asking you to restart the damn bot will stop as well.