# Anonymous authentication

The "Bypass authentication" setting can be enabled to completely bypass all authentication mechanisms; any user can then access any task sequences and content available on the DeployR server.  Since this mechanism is tried first, any other configured authentication mechanism will never be used.

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This configuration should not be used when DeployR is accessible via the internet.