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description: Authentication
title: Authentication
weight: 30
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# User Authentication Overview

Grafana provides many ways to authenticate users. Some authentication integrations also enable syncing user permissions and org memberships.

Here is a table showing all supported authentication providers and the features available for them. [Team sync]({{< relref "../enterprise/team-sync.md" >}}) and [active sync]({{< relref "../enterprise/enhanced_ldap.md#active-ldap-synchronization" >}}) are only available in Grafana Enterprise.

See also, [Grafana Authentication]({{< relref "grafana.md" >}}).

| Provider                                                         | Support | Role mapping | Team sync<br> _(Enterprise only)_ | Active sync<br> _(Enterprise only)_ |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------- | :-----: | :----------: | :-------------------------------: | :---------------------------------: |
| [Auth Proxy]({{< relref "auth-proxy.md" >}})                     |  v2.1+  |      -       |               v6.3+               |                  -                  |
| [Azure AD OAuth]({{< relref "azuread.md" >}})                    |  v6.7+  |    v6.7+     |               v6.7+               |                  -                  |
| [Generic OAuth]({{< relref "generic-oauth.md" >}})               |  v4.0+  |    v6.5+     |                 -                 |                  -                  |
| [GitHub OAuth]({{< relref "github.md" >}})                       |  v2.0+  |      -       |               v6.3+               |                  -                  |
| [GitLab OAuth]({{< relref "gitlab.md" >}})                       |  v5.3+  |      -       |               v6.4+               |                  -                  |
| [Google OAuth]({{< relref "google.md" >}})                       |  v2.0+  |      -       |                 -                 |                  -                  |
| [LDAP]({{< relref "ldap.md" >}})                                 |  v2.1+  |    v2.1+     |               v5.3+               |                v6.3+                |
| [Okta OAuth]({{< relref "okta.md" >}})                           |  v7.0+  |    v7.0+     |               v7.0+               |                  -                  |
| [SAML]({{< relref "../enterprise/saml.md" >}}) (Enterprise only) |  v6.3+  |    v7.0+     |               v7.0+               |                  -                  |
