diff --git a/www/conservancy/settings.py b/www/conservancy/settings.py
index af8db969..3585feb3 100644
--- a/www/conservancy/settings.py
+++ b/www/conservancy/settings.py
@@ -130,11 +130,6 @@ STATICFILES_DIRS = [
     BASE_DIR / 'conservancy' / 'static',
 ]
 
-AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
-#    'conservancy.auth.LDAPBackend',
-'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend',
-)
-
 MIDDLEWARE = [
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',