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diff --git a/docs/getting-started.md b/docs/getting-started.md index 17b82d5..f74949d 100644 --- a/docs/getting-started.md +++ b/docs/getting-started.md @@ -29,3 +29,26 @@ cd ./moodle-auth_token ``` ## User's Manual + +An authentication plug-in is a method of handling user authentication to Moodle when users log into your site. +You can have one or more methods as the same time enabled on your site, but each user can only use one method of authentication at a time. + +You must enable and configure the method, as you need for your users in `Site administration` > `Plugins` > `Authentication` > `Manage authentication`. +Note that the order of processing on this page does matter and after `manual` and `nologin`, you should next put the method that most users will have. + + + +The authentication plug-in has no configuration. +This means that the third-party plug-in is responsible for setting the keys. + +**Note**: +Users will not receive any error or other message when they try to log in but it simply will not allow them in. + +To authenticate a user, create a link for it: + +```Text +/login/index.php?token=secret +``` + +The authentication plug-in does not add graphical forms to the user. +This means that custom forms are created by developers for a particular task.
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