What is the Authentication option in the Flow settings?

[laxmanpradhan]

I'm not talking about the "Designation" that is set to "Authentication". I'm talking about the next setting that is called "Authentication".

Official docs don't seem to mention it: https://goauthentik.io/docs/flow/

I'm trying to setup an LDAP server for use with jellyfin (as per these instructions: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-jellyfin-authentik-duo-2fa-solution-tutorial ). I've seen several guides and even the official documentation talk about setting up the flow for LDAP search query. None of the documentation/guides that I have seen online mention this option so I assume its new.

So in this case, I have a user that allows me to do an LDAP search on my user list. The default option for Authenticaion is "Require authentication", but if you leave it like that it won't work. I have to change it to "no requirement" or "require no authentication" and everything is working correctly.

As a test, if I use the incorrect password even with "require no authentication" , it will NOT work which is good. That means it clearly is still requiring authentication via username and password. So that begs the question what does this setting do? What are the security implications of using "require no authentication"?