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 In `warrior.conf` you can also set `HTTP_USERNAME` and `HTTP_PASSWORD` to enable HTTP Basic Auth for the web interfaces.
 
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+## contributing / contact
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+I'm very open for contributions to make this VM image even more low-maintanance for users, if you have any ideas feel free to open a PR!
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+If you are someone from the ArchiveTeam and (don't) like this or if anyone really needs to contact me in private, please see https://gecko.space/kontakt/ for my contact details.
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 ¹ for example "Deutsche Telekom" is well known to redirect non-existent domains to their own search engine; some countries mandate that ISPs have to block "bad domains" such as The Pirate Bay; some people use [Pi-Hole](https://pi-hole.net/) or [AdGuardHome](https://adguard.com/en/adguard-home/overview.html) to filter ads/trackers from their whole network