Autenticació

Location: Administration > Users > Authentication >

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.

Once someone is authenticated, a user's role authorizes them, through permissions, to be capable of interacting with different contexts. A course is a good example of a context. The enrolment process looks for someone who has been authenticated and gives them a role in the context of the course.

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
• Email-based self-registration - for enabling users to create their own accounts
• Moodle Network - how different Moodle sites can connect and authenticate users
• No login - at present this menu and settings page only contains information

See also

• Authentication FAQ
• Multi authentication in Upgrading to Moodle 1.8
• Using Moodle User authentication forum
• Using Moodle Do users need e-mail addresses? forum discussion
• Using Moodle Admin approving self registrations? forum discussion