From d8ae1636d053fc75152de72bb6de18c9f15766f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominik George <dominik.george@teckids.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:55:26 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [Docs] Add reasons for using social accounts

---
 docs/admin/04_socialaccounts.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/admin/04_socialaccounts.rst b/docs/admin/04_socialaccounts.rst
index 97b023947..b53c0f23f 100644
--- a/docs/admin/04_socialaccounts.rst
+++ b/docs/admin/04_socialaccounts.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Social accounts
 AlekSIS can authenticate users against third party applications using OAuth2
 or OpenID.
 
+This can be used to grant access to persons whose credentials shall not be
+managed in AlekSIS itself, for example because another authentication provider
+is already used throughout the school, or for guardians that can or should for
+some reason not get an LDAP account, or similar situations.
 
 .. warning::
   Social accounts are **not** working with two factor authentication! If a user
-- 
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