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 API documentation in the form of an OpenAPI spec can be found in the `docs`
 directory.
 
+## Default User
+
+The default user has a username of `root` and a password of `root`.
+
 ## Developing
 
 This repository comes with a Docker Compose configuration used to bring up a dev