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-rw-r--r--sonar-core/src/main/java/org/sonar/core/config/SecurityProperties.java4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sonar-core/src/main/java/org/sonar/core/config/SecurityProperties.java b/sonar-core/src/main/java/org/sonar/core/config/SecurityProperties.java
index e03b22f6e93..5836bd416f2 100644
--- a/sonar-core/src/main/java/org/sonar/core/config/SecurityProperties.java
+++ b/sonar-core/src/main/java/org/sonar/core/config/SecurityProperties.java
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ class SecurityProperties {
PropertyDefinition.builder(CoreProperties.CORE_FORCE_AUTHENTICATION_PROPERTY)
.defaultValue(Boolean.toString(CoreProperties.CORE_FORCE_AUTHENTICATION_DEFAULT_VALUE))
.name("Force user authentication")
- .description("Forcing user authentication stops un-logged users to access SonarQube.")
+ .description(
+ "Forcing user authentication prevents anonymous users from accessing the SonarQube UI, or project data via the Web API."
+ + "Some specific read-only Web APIs, including those required to prompt authentication, are still available anonymously.")
.type(PropertyType.BOOLEAN)
.category(CoreProperties.CATEGORY_SECURITY)
.build());