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Authentication is the process of allowing a user to login to a Moodle site based on their username and password.


Authentication is the process of determining whether someone is who they say they are when entering a Moodle site.  Some Moodle sites initial authenticate a user as a "guest" then re-authenticates them by a login. 
==Authentication plugins==


Once someone is authenticated, a user's [[Roles and capabilities|role]] authorizes them, through [[Manage_roles#Permissions|permissions]], to be capable of interacting with different contexts.  A [[Course|course]] is a good example of a context.  The [[Enrolment|enrolment]] process looks for someone who has been authenticated and gives them a role in the context of the course.
Moodle provides a number of ways of [[Managing authentication|managing authentication]], called ''authentication plugins''.  


==Overview of authentication==
One of the first things the site administrator needs to consider when setting up a Moodle site is user authentication. A standard Moodle has 15 types of authentication methods and additional contributed code plugins are available.
The user authentication menu is broken into 5 submenus.  The site administrator will typically manage most authentication menus from the [[Manage authentication]] menu. Other sub menus under Authentication are for convenience because they lead to the same page as the edit links found on the manage authentication menu page.
*[[Manage authentication]] - This shows all the site's authentication methods and has an edit link to each of their settings
*[[Manual accounts]] - accounts created manually by an administrator
*[[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
*[[Email-based self-registration]] - for enabling users to create their own accounts
*[[Moodle Network]] - how different Moodle sites can connect and authenticate users
*[[CAS server (SSO)]] - account details are located on an external CAS server
**[[No login]] - at present this menu and settings page only contains information
*[[External database authentication|External database]] - account details are located on an external database
*[[FirstClass authentication|FirstClass server]] - account details are located on an external FirstClass server
*[[IMAP authentication|IMAP server]] - account details are located on an external IMAP server
*[[LDAP authentication|LDAP server]] - account details are located on an external LDAP server
*[[MNet|Moodle Network authentication]] - how different Moodle sites can connect and authenticate users
*[[NNTP authentication|NNTP server]] - account details are located on an external NNTP server
*[[No authentication]] - for testing purposes or if the Moodle site is not available on the Internet
*[[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 authentication|RADIUS server]] - account details are located on an external RADIUS server
*[[Shibboleth]] - account details are located on an external Shibboleth server
* Web services authentication


==See also==
==See also==


*[[Authentication FAQ]]
*[[Authentication FAQ]]
*Multi authentication in [[Upgrading to Moodle 1.8]]
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=42 User authentication] forum
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95559 Do users need e-mail addresses?] forum discussion
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=97938 Admin approving self registrations?] forum discussion


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Latest revision as of 08:07, 22 March 2012

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.

See also

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