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  \label{Authentication}
  People are authenticated with a standard username and password scheme.
- LON-CAPA ships with support for LON-CAPA specific passwords, authentication
+ LON-CAPA ships with support for the following authentication scheme:
- using the UNIX authentication scheme on the server (assuming that
- user has a user account on that system), and Kerberos 4 and 5. It
+ \begin{enumerate}
- is easy to add other external authentication types to integrate with
+ \item Internally authenticated: LON-CAPA specific passwords, choose this when in doubt.
- whatever your campus may use, and there are institutions doing this.
+ \item System authentication: authentication using the UNIX authentication scheme on the server.
+ \item Kerberos authenticated: authentication based on either a Kerberos 4 or 5 server.
+ \item External authentication: custom authentication integrated with an authentication server other than Kerberos.
+ \end{enumerate}
+ If the student or user you are adding to LON-CAPA will be using the same account as another system (ie email), then your system administrator can tell you which authentication type you should choose.  If you are creating a user that is unique only to LON-CAPA, then select "internally authenticated."