diff --git a/client/pages/adminpage/backend.js b/client/pages/adminpage/backend.js
index 4e2f1c52..08df4188 100644
--- a/client/pages/adminpage/backend.js
+++ b/client/pages/adminpage/backend.js
@@ -135,14 +135,14 @@ export class BackendPage extends React.Component {
             "identity_provider": (function() {
                 const { type, ...other } = objectGet(middlewareData, ["identity_provider"]) || {};
                 return {
-                    "type": type || null,
+                    "type": type || "nop",
                     "params": JSONStringify(other),
                 };
             })(),
             "attribute_mapping": (function() {
                 let { related_backend = null, ...params } = objectGet(middlewareData, ["attribute_mapping"]) || {};
                 const obj = {
-                    "related_backend": related_backend || "N/A"
+                    "related_backend": related_backend || "nop"
                 };
                 if(Object.keys(params).length > 0) {
                     obj.params = JSONStringify(params);
diff --git a/server/plugin/plg_authenticate_passthrough/index.go b/server/plugin/plg_authenticate_passthrough/index.go
index 2dcdeedf..8a2c060f 100644
--- a/server/plugin/plg_authenticate_passthrough/index.go
+++ b/server/plugin/plg_authenticate_passthrough/index.go
@@ -21,11 +21,11 @@ func (this Admin) Setup() Form {
 				Value: "passthrough",
 			},
 			{
-				Name:    "strategy",
-				Type:    "select",
-				Default: "direct",
-				Opts:    []string{"direct", "password_only", "username_and_password"},
-				Id:      "strategy",
+				Name:  "strategy",
+				Type:  "select",
+				Value: "direct",
+				Opts:  []string{"direct", "password_only", "username_and_password"},
+				Id:    "strategy",
 				Description: `This plugin has 3 base strategies:
 1. The 'direct' strategy will redirect the user to your storage without asking for anything and use whatever is configured in the attribute mapping section.
 2. The 'password_only' strategy will redirect the user to a page asking for a password which you can map to a field in the attribute mapping section like this: {{ .password }}