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**`join_policy` is read from `node.toml`, never from the hub.** A hub able to
declare a group open would be handed its key. An unknown group reads as `invite`.
+It is written there when the node starts hosting the group, from the operator's
+own request — the creation form in the desktop application, `group add --open` on
+the command line — and is `invite` unless that request says `open`; the hub's
+record of the group is looked up for its id and name only. Every string written
+into `node.toml` is escaped as a TOML string (`ops.node_toml.toml_string`): a group
+or folder name is someone else's text.
### 3.6 Passphrase change and recovery