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Add warnings about MSC3861 on certain APIs. (#16168)

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Will Hunt 8 months ago
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Document which admin APIs are disabled when experimental [MSC3861](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/3861) support is enabled.

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# Account validity API

**Note:** This API is disabled when MSC3861 is enabled. [See #15582](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15582)

This API allows a server administrator to manage the validity of an account. To
use it, you must enable the account validity feature (under
`account_validity`) in Synapse's configuration.


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# Shared-Secret Registration

**Note:** This API is disabled when MSC3861 is enabled. [See #15582](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15582)

This API allows for the creation of users in an administrative and
non-interactive way. This is generally used for bootstrapping a Synapse
instance with administrator accounts.


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- `name` - Is optional and filters to only return users with user ID localparts
**or** displaynames that contain this value.
- `guests` - string representing a bool - Is optional and if `false` will **exclude** guest users.
Defaults to `true` to include guest users.
Defaults to `true` to include guest users. This parameter is not supported when MSC3861 is enabled. [See #15582](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15582)
- `admins` - Optional flag to filter admins. If `true`, only admins are queried. If `false`, admins are excluded from
the query. When the flag is absent (the default), **both** admins and non-admins are included in the search results.
- `deactivated` - string representing a bool - Is optional and if `true` will **include** deactivated users.
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## Reset password

**Note:** This API is disabled when MSC3861 is enabled. [See #15582](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15582)

Changes the password of another user. This will automatically log the user out of all their devices.

The api is:
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## Get whether a user is a server administrator or not

**Note:** This API is disabled when MSC3861 is enabled. [See #15582](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15582)

The api is:

```
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## Change whether a user is a server administrator or not

**Note:** This API is disabled when MSC3861 is enabled. [See #15582](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15582)

Note that you cannot demote yourself.

The api is:
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## Login as a user

**Note:** This API is disabled when MSC3861 is enabled. [See #15582](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15582)

Get an access token that can be used to authenticate as that user. Useful for
when admins wish to do actions on behalf of a user.



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# Registration Tokens

**Note:** This API is disabled when MSC3861 is enabled. [See #15582](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/15582)

This API allows you to manage tokens which can be used to authenticate
registration requests, as proposed in
[MSC3231](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/blob/main/proposals/3231-token-authenticated-registration.md)


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