Add qualification to authenticate always documentation (#12498)

It might not be obvious to some users that authenticate always will not prevent uv from consulting other indexes.
2025-04-02 19:31:18 +02:00
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@@ -207,7 +207,9 @@ authenticate = "always"
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 When `authenticate` is set to `always`, uv will eagerly search for credentials and error if
-credentials cannot be found.
+credentials cannot be found. If the discovered credentials are not valid (i.e., the index returns a
+HTTP 401 or 403), then uv will treat packages as unavailable and query the next configured index as
+described in the [index strategy](#searching-across-multiple-indexes) section.

 ### Disabling authentication