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Logging in

There are various ways to authenticate with Kadi4Mat. Each instance may have one or more authentication providers registered, which are briefly described below.

Shibboleth
Shibboleth allows logging in using an existing account of a user's home institution. Each institution needs to be enabled separately in Kadi4Mat. Some institution's identity providers may not release all required user attributes to Kadi4Mat by default. In this case, the administrator of the Shibboleth identity provider needs to be contacted.
LDAP
LDAP also allows logging in using existing user accounts residing in a specific LDAP installation, e.g. in an Active Directory. This method of authentication is not necessarily tied to any specific institution.
Local credentials
This method of authentication uses separate accounts local to this application. Depending on the configuration of a Kadi4Mat instance, registration may or may not be enabled.