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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
LDAP server - account details are located on an external LDAP server
LTI - works with the Publish as LTI tool enrolment method to connect courses and activities
Moodle Network authentication - how different Moodle sites can connect and authenticate users
No authentication - for testing purposes or if the Moodle site is not available on the Internet. Do NOT use on public servers!
Shibboleth - account details are located on an external Shibboleth server
Web services authentication
Uniquelogin authentication to limit users to one simultaeous session

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-Location: ''Administration > Users > Authentication >
+{{Managing a Moodle site}}
+Authentication is the process of allowing a user to log in to a Moodle site with a 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
+*[[No login]] - suspend particular user account
 *[[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
+*[[LDAP authentication|LDAP server]] - account details are located on an external LDAP server
+*[[LTI]] - works with the [[Publish as LTI tool]] enrolment method to connect courses and activities
+*[[MNet|Moodle Network authentication]] - how different Moodle sites can connect and authenticate users
+*[[No authentication]] - for testing purposes or if the Moodle site is not available on the Internet. Do NOT use on public servers!
+*[[Shibboleth]] - account details are located on an external Shibboleth server
+* Web services authentication
+*[[Uniquelogin authentication]] to limit users to one simultaeous session
 ==See also==
 *[[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
 [[Category:Authentication]]
+[[eu:Erabiltzaileen_autentifikazioa]]
 [[fr:Authentification]]
+[[de:Authentifizierung]]
+[[ja:認証]]
+[[es:Autenticación]]

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Authentication: Difference between revisions

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Authentication plugins

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