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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.

Standard authentication plugins are:

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

There are also many additional authentication plugins in the Moodle plugins directory.

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-There are various ways of managing user '''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.
-:[[Email-based authentication]]
+==Authentication plugins==
-:[[Manual accounts only]]
-:[[No authentication]]
-:[[PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)]]
-:[[Shibboleth]]
-:[[Use a CAS server (SSO)]]
-:[[Use a POP3 server]]
-:[[LDAP authentication|Use an LDAP server]]
-:[[NTLM authentication|Use NTLM/Integrated Authentication (3rd party plugin)]]
-===The login page===
+Moodle provides a number of ways of [[Managing authentication|managing authentication]], called ''authentication plugins''.
-Depending upon the authentication method (i.e. not applicable for email authentication) login instructions may be easily added. Alternatively, an alternate login URL may be added - please check the discussion [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=26629 Customising the log in page] for further details.
+Standard authentication plugins are:
+*[[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 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
+There are also many [https://moodle.org/plugins/?q=type:auth additional authentication plugins in the Moodle plugins directory].
 ==See also==
-*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=42 Using Moodle: User authentication] forum
+*[[Authentication FAQ]]
+[[Category:Authentication]]
-[[Category:Administrator|Admin/auth]]
+[[de:Authentifizierung]]
-[[Category:Authentication|Admin/auth]]
+[[es:Autenticación]]
+[[eu:Erabiltzaileen_autentifikazioa]]
+[[fr:Authentification]]
+[[it:Autenticazione]]
+[[ja:認証]]

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Authentication: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 14:15, 5 December 2018

Authentication plugins

See also