Null Authentication

Null authentication occurs when a SIMPLE proxy user object named by the user contains no auth_user_name= item. In this situation, whatever input is given for the password is accepted without any checking. The preinstalled anonymous and ftp proxy user objects are examples of this type of authentication.

There is nothing special about the names anonymous and ftp for these preinstalled objects. You can create additional null authentication proxy user objects and use them instead of or in addition to the preinstalled ones. This allows the creation of null authentication paths that are private to your installation.