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Merge pull request #63 from nextcloud/basciauth_configuration-warning
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add basic auth configuration security warning
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nerdmaennchen authored May 23, 2019
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### Configuration
The only supported parameter is the URL of the web server where the authentication happens.

**⚠⚠ Warning:** make sure to use the URL of a correctly configured HTTP Basic authenticating server. If the server always responds with a HTTP 2xx response without validating the users, this would allow anyone to log in to your Nextcloud instance with **any username / password combination**. ⚠⚠

Add the following to your `config.php`:

'user_backends' => array(
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