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Improve docs on force_provider_authentication #1340

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@adombeck

We've had reports that users expect the force_provider_authentication setting to always require device authentication during login. That's not the case, it instead forces a token refresh during login, which fails if the user does not have the necessary permissions in the identity provider. That is documented in the comment in the broker.conf file:

## This works by forcing a token refresh during login, which fails if the
## user does not have the necessary permissions in the identity provider.

but it's not documented in https://documentation.ubuntu.com/authd/edge-docs/howto/configure-authd/#force-remote-authentication-with-the-identity-provider.

We should also consider whether the name is misleading and whether there is a better name for the setting (force_provider_permission_check?).

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