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 Accessing this wiki is normally only allowed for authenticated users. If you want to share your work with others not having an account here then you can just request making a given url publicly available. On the server this is done by simply putting a new line to `/home/gollum/wiki/public.txt`.
 
 ### Creating a New Account
-A new account can be created by adding a new entry to `/home/gollum/wiki/users.yml`. The password there is encrypted using sha1sum (`echo -n "password" | sha1sum`) or, for those who don't happen to have sha1sum available, using an online SHA1 generator such as [this one](http://www.sha1-online.com/).
+Send a request to Axel Uhl or Simon Marcel Pamies that includes the SHA1 hash of your desired password. Obtain such an SHA1 hash for your password here: http://www.sha1-online.com/.
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+A Wiki administrator can add a new account by adding a new entry to `/home/gollum/wiki/users.yml`. The password there is encrypted using sha1sum (`echo -n "password" | sha1sum`) or, for those who don't happen to have sha1sum available, using an online SHA1 generator such as [this one](http://www.sha1-online.com/).
 
 ### Editing
 You can edit information here freely but do not leave any nonsense here.