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Clarification on search user
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Expand Up @@ -173,6 +173,15 @@ use the ``ldap`` user provider.
provider is used. However, the LDAP component itself does not provide
any escaping yet. Thus, it's your responsibility to prevent LDAP injection
attacks when using the component directly.

.. caution::

The user configured above in the the user provider is only used to retrieve
data. It's a static user defined by its username and password (for improved
security, define the password as an environment variable).

If your LDAP server allows to retrieve information anonymously, you can
set the ``search_dn`` and ``search_password`` options to ``null``.

The ``ldap`` user provider supports many different configuration options:

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