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Expand Up @@ -151,3 +151,10 @@ key in the ``remote_user`` firewall configuration.
Just like for X509 authentication, you will need to configure a "user provider".
See :ref:`the previous note <cookbook-security-pre-authenticated-user-provider-note>`
for more information.

.. caution::

:doc:`User impersonation </cookbook/security/impersonating_user>` is not
compatible with ``REMOTE_USER`` based authentication. The reason is that
impersonation requires the authentication state to be maintained server-side
but ``REMOTE_USER`` information is sent by the browser in each request.