diff --git a/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml b/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml
index 874049a752f..31ff4ef57c6 100644
--- a/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml
+++ b/litellm/proxy/proxy_config.yaml
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ litellm_settings:
   # callbacks: custom_callbacks.proxy_handler_instance # sets litellm.callbacks = [proxy_handler_instance]
 
 general_settings: 
+  allow_user_auth: True
   master_key: sk-1234
   alerting: ["slack"]
   alerting_threshold: 10 # sends alerts if requests hang for 2 seconds