Provider options

There are the following ways you can get Sitefinity CMS to authenticate against other sources that hold user information:

• ActiveDirectory membership provider
  Manages storage of membership information for an ASP.NET application in Active Directory and Active Directory Application Mode servers.
• Sql membership Provider
  Manages storage of membership information for an ASP.NET application in a SQL Server database.
• ClientFormsAuthentication membership provider
  Enables forms authentication with client application services.
• ClientWindowsAuthentication membership provider
  Enables Windows authentication with client application services.
• Custom membership provider
  A custom implementation of the Membership Provider. For example, authenticate to a datasource using ODBC (MySql, MS Access), ADO.NET, EntityFramework, or WebAPI.