Authentication

Authentication is the process of allowing a user to log in to a Moodle site with a 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 or if the Moodle site is not available on the Internet. Do NOT use on public servers!
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
Uniquelogin authentication to limit users to one simultaeous session