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commit 866e8419cbdf727bdb876a1a10c2a5563cf3f4ce Author: Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Fri Jul 13 17:27:14 2018 +0200 fix proxy auth docs, goes with https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/1436 --- src/api/server/authn.rst | 7 +------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/api/server/authn.rst b/src/api/server/authn.rst index 040b571..64c728c 100644 --- a/src/api/server/authn.rst +++ b/src/api/server/authn.rst @@ -272,15 +272,10 @@ To obtain the first token and thus authenticate a user for the first time, the Proxy Authentication ==================== -.. note:: - To use this authentication method make sure that the - ``{couch_httpd_auth, proxy_authentication_handler}`` value in added to the - list of the active :config:option:`chttpd/authentication_handlers`: - .. code-block:: ini [chttpd] - authentication_handlers = {chttpd_auth, cookie_authentication_handler}, {couch_httpd_auth, proxy_authentication_handler}, {chttpd_auth, default_authentication_handler} + authentication_handlers = {chttpd_auth, cookie_authentication_handler}, {chttpd_auth, proxy_authentication_handler}, {chttpd_auth, default_authentication_handler} `Proxy authentication` is very useful in case your application already uses some external authentication service and you don't want to duplicate users and
