Provider options
There are the following ways you can get Sitefinity CMS to authenticate against other sources that hold user information:
ActiveDirectorymembership provider
Manages storage of membership information for an ASP.NET application in Active Directory and Active Directory Application Mode servers.Sqlmembership Provider Manages storage of membership information for an ASP.NET application in a SQL Server database.ClientFormsAuthenticationmembership provider
Enables forms authentication with client application services.ClientWindowsAuthenticationmembership provider
Enables Windows authentication with client application services.- Custom membership provider
A custom implementation of the Membership Provider. For example, authenticate to a data source using ODBC (MS Access), ADO.NET, EntityFramework, or WebAPI.
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