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This adds documentation about the new configuration dbms.security.allow_oidc_credential_forwarding_enabled introduced in this PR.

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a|When set to `true`, remote database aliases are allowed to authenticate to remote databases using OIDC credential forwarding. When set to `false`, authentication of remote database aliases using OIDC credential forwarding is disallowed. Existing aliases that rely on this method remain defined but cannot be used to connect until this setting is enabled.
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When set to true, remote database aliases are allowed to forward OIDC credentials to authenticate on remote Neo4j DBMS. When set to false, OIDC credentials are not allowed to be forwarded to remote DBMS. Existing aliases that rely on this method remain defined but cannot be used to connect until this setting is enabled.

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I like the alternative more. It's clearer, I think.

@NataliaIvakina NataliaIvakina self-assigned this Oct 17, 2025
@evelinadanielsson evelinadanielsson marked this pull request as ready for review October 21, 2025 10:56
@evelinadanielsson evelinadanielsson force-pushed the dev-add-allow-oidc-credential-forwarding-config branch from 084ffe2 to 7a2945e Compare October 21, 2025 10:56
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neo4j-docops-agent commented Oct 21, 2025

Thanks for the documentation updates.

The preview documentation has now been torn down - reopening this PR will republish it.

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Looks good!

@evelinadanielsson evelinadanielsson merged commit f3af694 into neo4j:dev Oct 22, 2025
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