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Moodle 2 Administration
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Moodle 2 Administration

by Alex Büchner
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
420 pages
9h 59m
English
Packt Publishing
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User authentication

Now that you know everything about users and the information that is stored about them, let's look at how to authenticate them with Moodle. So far we have only dealt with manual accounts, which are activated by default after the installation of Moodle.

Moodle supports a significant number of authentication types. Furthermore, Moodle supports multiauthentication; that is, concurrent authentication from different authentication sources. For example, your organization might use an LDAP server containing user information for all your full-time students and staff, but wishes to manage part-time users manually.

Remember the basic authentication workflow we looked at in Chapter 3, Courses, Users, and Roles? Now, we can have a look at ...

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