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[1.5.x] Fixed #20900 -- Documented RemoteUserBackend.authenticate 

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Methods
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.. method:: RemoteUserBackend.authenticate(remote_user)
The username passed as ``remote_user`` is considered trusted. This method
simply returns the ``User`` object with the given username, creating a new
``User`` object if :attr:`~RemoteUserBackend.create_unknown_user` is
``True``.
Returns ``None`` if :attr:`~RemoteUserBackend.create_unknown_user` is
``False`` and a ``User`` object with the given username is not found in the
database.
.. method:: RemoteUserBackend.clean_username(username)
Performs any cleaning on the ``username`` (e.g. stripping LDAP DN