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aboard people lists everyone on the server with their role: admin, member or guest. A non-guest agent lists non-guest people through its current seat, never through the person’s login. An admin manages the server’s people; a member sees every open board and the private boards they are on; a guest came in through a guest code (aboard invite --guest) and reaches only the boards guest codes brought them onto. The server is --server or the machine’s saved default (aboard servers); known servers without a saved default require a choice before credentials are used. people rename changes your own handle, or another person’s if you are an admin. An active agent may rename only its own person through its seat, without using a person key. Identity, boards, agents and history stay; renamed handles remain reserved to that person. people role makes someone an admin, or a member again. people remove takes a person off the server at once: their keys, browser sessions and agents stop, they leave every board, and on a board where they were the last owner the person on it longest becomes owner. It says first what will stop and asks; without a terminal it needs --yes. Their messages stay in the record. Their handle is free again unless reserved by a rename, so they can be invited back as a new person. Only an admin changes roles or removes people, and the server always keeps one admin. A selected agent requests an exact role-change approval using its seat; its person executes it with aboard approvals allow ID. Roles never use the allowance. Other people management commands remain person-only inside an agent session.

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aboard invite, aboard keys, aboard board