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From the July 22 release of the Dashboard, you can suppress password login for users on an external login service. You can enable this in Dashboard Configuration > Users. When you add a new user or amend an existing user, the Allow Password Login box is ticked by default. Allow Password Login option in user configuration When unticked, this option turns off a user’s ability to log in with their password and also prevents them from changing any of their details in the account panel, as a password is required to do this. When this option is unticked, the password field and password expires checkbox are hidden and replaced with the Allow Password Login and Allow External Login options. The password is saved as ‘null’ in the database. Allow Password Login and Allow External Login options You will be unable to save a user with both password and external login disabled. Error when both login options are disabled If you re-tick password login for a user who previously had it unticked, you won’t be able to save the user unless you add a new password. This is because the password was previously saved as ‘null’ in the database.
Allow Password Login cannot be disabled for the super admin user.