Welcome to the Alfresco Identity Service
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The Alfresco Identity Service (IDS) is responsible for supporting user authentication of other Alfresco software.
The key capabilities of the Identity Service include the ability to:
- Enable Single Sign On capabilities for Alfresco Content Services and Alfresco Process Services
- Configure user authentication between the Alfresco Identity Service and a supported LDAP provider.
- Configure a supported SAML provider to enable Single Sign On (SSO) with an existing identity provider.
More information is available about the Alfresco Identity Service on the following topics:
- An overview of the Alfresco Identity Service architecture is within the Alfresco/alfresco-identity-service GitHub project documentation.
- How to deploy the Alfresco Identity Service.
- Configure any customizations in the realm or theme of the Alfresco Identity Service.
Note: See the supported platforms page for compatibility between Alfresco Content Services or Alfresco Process Services and the Alfresco Identity Service.