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# Firewalls and ACLs

A key security mechanism in Couchdrop is ACLs. ACLs limit access to particular IP addresses or netwrok ranges.

There are three levels of ACL controls in Couchdrop:

* User based
* Group based
* Tenant based

ACLs are additive, in that if the user authenticating originates from an IP address in a range at all three levels, then we will allow the request. 

Configuring an IP address or network range is simple:

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