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2nd Remove adding credentials to Web.config #1767

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</forms>
</authentication>
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You can configure forms authentication by using the authentication configuration element. For instance, you have a login page. In the configuration file, you specify a URL to redirect unauthenticated requests to the login page.
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Should we keep the sentence about defining credentials?

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You can configure forms authentication by using the authentication configuration element. For instance, you have a login page. In the configuration file, you specify a URL to redirect unauthenticated requests to the login page.
You can configure forms authentication by using the authentication configuration element. For instance, you have a login page. In the configuration file, you specify a URL to redirect unauthenticated requests to the login page. Then define valid credentials, either in the *Web.config* file or in a separate file.

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I'd remove it. Aside from it being SHA1 (ha), it's such a bad practice why discuss it at all?

</forms>
</authentication>
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You can configure forms authentication by using the authentication configuration element. For instance, you have a login page. In the configuration file, you specify a URL to redirect unauthenticated requests to the login page.

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As above, merging sentences.

</forms>
</authentication>
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You can configure forms authentication by using the authentication configuration element. For instance, you have a login page. In the configuration file, you specify a URL to redirect unauthenticated requests to the login page.

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I'd remove it. Aside from it being SHA1 (ha), it's such a bad practice why discuss it at all?

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Learn Build status updates of commit 109f7fe:

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