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[menu.docs]
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name = "Overview"
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# Authentication
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Grafana provides many ways to authenticate users. By default it will use local users & passwords stored in the Grafana
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database.
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## Settings
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Via the [server ini config file]({{< relref "installation/debian.md" >}}) you can setup many different authentication methods. Auth settings
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are documented below.
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### [auth]
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#### disable_login_form
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Set to true to disable (hide) the login form, useful if you use OAuth, defaults to false.
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#### disable_signout_menu
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Set to true to disable the signout link in the side menu. useful if you use auth.proxy, defaults to false.
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### [auth.basic]
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#### enabled
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When enabled is `true` (default) the http api will accept basic authentication.
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