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<DD> Moodle now features seven different authentication mechanisms,
making it possible to hook Moodle up to nearly any external list
of users!
New methods just added include IMAP, POP3 and NNTP servers (including
<P>New methods just added include IMAP, POP3 and NNTP servers (including
those using SSL or certificate-based authentication), and also
authentication against user-specified fields in ANY
external database table. The login page can now be partially customised
external database table.
<P>The login page can now be partially customised
by the admin with personalised instructions, and the guest login can be
hidden if desired. In addition, Moodle now sports a cool
hidden if desired.
<P>"Mappings" can be defined so that other fields (such as email, firstname,
lastname, department, language etc) can also be copied from LDAP or an
external database when accounts are first used.
<P>Finally, Moodle now sports a cool
new admin GUI for configuring all of this, so it should be pretty
easy now to set up external authentication.
Many thanks to contributor Petri Asikainen for helping with the admin GUI.<BR><BR>