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.

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
OAuth 2 - authenticate with an OAuth 2 service
Web services authentication