From 3d5f5aace46bdcfc8f0a8afcaf463dd6481e6b9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jamesrascal <6054150+jamesrascal@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:00:18 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Include note on App Password App Passwords are needed when using a third party login provider or MFA/2FA. --- user_manual/files/access_webdav.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/user_manual/files/access_webdav.rst b/user_manual/files/access_webdav.rst index 6da6ccf54..3fa75cb75 100644 --- a/user_manual/files/access_webdav.rst +++ b/user_manual/files/access_webdav.rst @@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol servers. With WebDAV you can access your Nextcloud shares on Linux, macOS and Windows in the same way as any remote network share, and stay synchronized. +App Passwords +-------------------- + +Nextcloud supports generating unquie application password seprate from your user login. +If you are using a 3rd party authenication provider you will need to generate an application password for WebDAV. +In Nextcloud’s web GUI, go to the user preferences, go to Security. Generate an App password. + + Accessing files using Linux ---------------------------