# Configuring Network Server authentication in special circumstances

Some advanced Network Server configuration features may be useful in certain situations.

- Configuring Network Client authentication without SSL/TLS
  If you do not encrypt network traffic with SSL/TLS, you can use properties to specify the encryption of user names and passwords on the client side.
- Configuring Network Server authentication without SSL/TLS
  If you do not encrypt network traffic with SSL/TLS, you can use properties to specify the encryption of user names and passwords on the Network Server side.

Parent topic: Configuring user authentication
Related concepts
Configuring LDAP authentication
Configuring NATIVE authentication
Specifying authentication with a user-defined class
Programming applications for Derby user authentication
Related reference
List of user authentication properties
Login failure exceptions with user authentication