diff --git a/etc/distrenclient.conf b/etc/distrenclient.conf
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/etc/distrenclient.conf
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+/*
+ A client is essentially the libdistren library or any app that is submitting 
+ files. Thus, it should only need to know which server to access. Credentials
+ specific to a server will be specified per-server for now.
+*/
+client
+{
+  server = "ohnopublishing"
+}
+
+include("distrencommon.conf")