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title: "First Factor"
description: "Authelia utilizes the standard username and password combination for first factor authentication."
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date: 2022-03-20T12:52:27+11:00
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{{< figure src="1FA.png" caption="An example of the first factor sign in portal" alt="First Factor Authentication View" width=400 >}}

*__IMPORTANT:__ This is currently the only method available for first factor authentication.*

Authelia supports several kind of user databases:

* An LDAP server like OpenLDAP, OpenAM, Active Directory etc.
* A YAML file