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 #### Credentials
 
-Visit [my.telegram.org](https://my.telegram.org/apps) to get your API ID and API hash values. These should then be passed into the system as environment variables `api_id` and `api_hash` respectively. A good place to put these would be the system's `/etc/environment` file.
+Visit [my.telegram.org](https://my.telegram.org/apps) to get your API ID and API hash values. These should then be passed into the system as environment variables `api_id` and `api_hash` respectively. Provided that this bot runs in a container (such as LXC) as the only application in it, a good place to put these would be the system's `/etc/environment` file. Otherwise put them somewhere more specific to the bot (`~/.profile` for a dedicated bot user perhaps).
 
 #### License