Understand Authentication Support in AEM 6.x

A consolidated view into the authentication (and occasionally authorization) mechanisms supported by AEM.

The following table describes how users can authenticate into AEM.

Authentication AEM 6.3 AEM 6.4 AEM 6.5
AEM as the canonical identity provider
Basic authentication ✔ ✔ ✔
Forms-based ✔ ✔ ✔
Token-based (w/ encapsulated token) ✔ ✔ ✔
Non-AEM system as the canonical identity provider
LDAP ✔ ✔ ✔
SSO ✔ ✔ ✔
SAML 2.0 ✔ ✔ ✔
OAuth 1.0a & 2.0 ✔ ✔ ✔
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