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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Andrea Pappacoda <andrea@pappacoda.it>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
+
+u signaling - "nextcloud-spreed-signaling user"