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{{Managing a Moodle site}} | |||
Authentication is the process of allowing a user to login to a Moodle site based on their username and password. | |||
Authentication | ==Authentication plugins== | ||
Moodle provides a number of ways of [[Managing authentication|managing authentication]], called ''authentication plugins''. | |||
*[[Manual accounts]] - accounts created manually by an administrator | *[[Manual accounts]] - accounts created manually by an administrator | ||
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*[[RADIUS authentication|RADIUS server]] - account details are located on an external RADIUS server | *[[RADIUS authentication|RADIUS server]] - account details are located on an external RADIUS server | ||
*[[Shibboleth]] - account details are located on an external Shibboleth server | *[[Shibboleth]] - account details are located on an external Shibboleth server | ||
* | * Web services authentication | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Authentication FAQ]] | *[[Authentication FAQ]] | ||
[[Category:Authentication]] | [[Category:Authentication]] |
Latest revision as of 10:11, 18 October 2011
Authentication is the process of allowing a user to login to a Moodle site based on their username and password.
Authentication plugins
Moodle provides a number of ways of managing authentication, called authentication plugins.
- Manual accounts - accounts created manually by an administrator
- No login - suspend particular user account
- Email-based self-registration - for enabling users to create their own accounts
- CAS server (SSO) - account details are located on an external CAS server
- External database - account details are located on an external database
- FirstClass server - account details are located on an external FirstClass server
- IMAP server - account details are located on an external IMAP server
- LDAP server - account details are located on an external LDAP server
- Moodle Network authentication - how different Moodle sites can connect and authenticate users
- NNTP server - account details are located on an external NNTP server
- No authentication - for testing purposes only
- PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - account details come from the operating system Moodle is running on, via PAM (can only be used Linux/Unix).
- POP3 server - account details are located on an external POP3 server
- RADIUS server - account details are located on an external RADIUS server
- Shibboleth - account details are located on an external Shibboleth server
- Web services authentication