Configuring Login Methods
When creating users, remember that Adobe Learning Manager does not ask for any user password. This is because Learning Manager does not have any authentication mechanism of its own (except for authenticating external users).
When an internal user tries to log into Adobe Learning Manager, the system relies on an external authentication mechanism to authenticate that user. The default authentication mechanism of Adobe Learning Manager is an Adobe ID.
Relying on an external authentication service to authenticate users has several advantages:
- As an organization, you can use a single external authentication service to grant a user access to an unlimited number of applications. This technique is called SSO. The idea is to authenticate once against a central authentication service, which, in turn, gives users access to all the services they are allowed to use. This avoids the need for users to authenticate individually to each service. It also saves...
