diff --git a/DOCUMENTATION.md b/DOCUMENTATION.md index 87293425..02e18a72 100644 --- a/DOCUMENTATION.md +++ b/DOCUMENTATION.md @@ -117,7 +117,8 @@ python -m radicale --storage-filesystem-folder=~/radicale/collections --auth-typ ##### Common Victory! Open in your browser! -You can log in with any username and password (no authentication is required as long as not proper configured - INSECURE). +You can log in with any username and password as no authentication is required by example option `--auth-type none`. +But this is INSECURE, see [Configuration/Authentication](#auth) for more. Just note that default configuration for security reason binds the server to `localhost` (IPv4: `127.0.0.1`, IPv6: `::1`). See [Addresses](#addresses) and [Configuration/Server](#server) for more. @@ -143,8 +144,9 @@ All configuration options are described in detail in the #### Authentication -In its default configuration Radicale doesn't check usernames or passwords. -If the server is reachable over a network, you should change this. +In its default configuration since 3.2.2 Radicale rejects by default all authentication by `type = denyall` until explicitly configured. + +Before 3.2.2 it didn't check usernames or passwords, and if the server is reachable over a network, you should change this as soon as possible. First a `users` file with all usernames and passwords must be created. It can be stored in the same directory as the configuration file.