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Manage Authentication

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      To access Couchbase Server, administrators and applications must be authenticated. Authentication is a process for identifying a user who is attempting to access a system.

      Passing Credentials

      Couchbase-Server authentication relies on credentials, which must be passed into the system by the user who is attempting access. Credentials can be entered manually, or passed into the system by an application. The credentials passed must match ones already stored and accessible by the system: if a match is achieved, the user is thereby recognized, and so may be granted access. If no match is achieved, the user is denied access.

      To access Couchbase Server, administrators authenticate by means of a username and password. These credentials can be validated by Couchbase Server itself: alternatively if the Enterprise Edition of Couchbase Server for Linux is used, validation can be performed either on a network-accessible directory-server, by means of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP); or by means of the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) authentication-framework.