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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 .env file for https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet
 
 
-# instructions:
+## instructions:
 as listed in: https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet#quick-start
 
 
@@ -30,7 +30,26 @@ docker-compose exec prosody /bin/bash
 prosodyctl --config /config/prosody.cfg.lua register TheDesiredUsername meet.jitsi TheDesiredPassword
 ```
 and test that you need to enter your credentials to 
-# notes:
+
+## notes on adding a user:
+the users for prosody are contained in:
+```
+CONFIG_FOLDER./prosody/data/meet%2ejitsi/accounts/
+```
+for every user there is a file username.dat, so for user Andrea with password "mypassword" there will be a file named:
+```
+CONFIG_FOLDER./prosody/data/meet%2ejitsi/accounts/andrea.dat
+```
+with this content:
+```
+return {
+        ["password"] = "mypassword";
+};
+```
+you can hot-add a file for a user without restarting anything, like for the creation via commandline.
+
+
+## notes on docker-compose:
 if something goes wrong, you might want to destroy all and start clean, for this you'll need to remove also the folder defined by CONFIG variable in .env, default is "~/.jitsi-meet-cfg"
 
 you can do it with one liner: