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 | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| OpenID | ⁕ | ⁕ | * |
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