# Configure an upstream proxy — Integrated Windows authentication

> Proxies that answer CONNECT with a 407 challenge and accept only integrated schemes — NTLM or Kerberos/Negotiate — can instead authenticate you with your Windows sign-in identity.

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## Knowledge

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Proxies that answer CONNECT with a 407 challenge and accept only integrated schemes — NTLM or Kerberos/Negotiate — can instead authenticate you with your Windows sign-in identity. This is opt-in and off by default

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ sbx settings set proxy.integratedAuth true
```

The setting isn't scoped: it applies to both sandbox and daemon traffic. If the proxy offers several schemes, the strongest one is used, preferring Negotiate over NTLM. A change takes effect on the same schedule as the other proxy settings: on the next sandbox you create or restart for sandbox traffic, and after sbx daemon restart for daemon traffic.

Your identity stays on the host. Authentication to the upstream proxy happens on the host side of the sandbox boundary, after network policy has already been applied, so no credential enters the sandbox and nothing about which destinations a sandbox may reach changes.

This depends on Windows SSPI, so it has no effect on macOS or Linux. On those platforms, credentials in the proxy URL remain the only option.

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