---
title: "Polarity General Server v5: Configure Authentication Methods"
slug: "polarity-configure-authentication"
description: "Polarity General Server v5 lets you set up authentication for your team. Choose local login, SAML single-sign-on, or LDAP/Active Directory to control user access and manage accounts."
tags: ["authentication", "sso", "login", "single-sign-on", "identity-provider", "ldap", "saml"]
status: "update"
updated: 2025-12-09T20:13:15Z
published: 2025-12-09T20:13:15Z
canonical: "knowledge.threatconnect.com/polarity-configure-authentication"
---

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# Configure Authentication

*Polarity Server supports three different methods of authentication.*

## Local Authentication

Local authentication is the default, out of the box authentication mechanism.

Users authenticate to Polarity using a local Polarity username and password. New Users and Groups can be added by Polarity Administrators via the "**Teams**" page. If SMTP is configured, an account creation email is sent to the new user with their auto-generated temporary password.

## SAML

Polarity supports SAML based authentication. For more information on configuring SAML including guides for various identity providers please see the SAML guides below:

- [Configure Okta as SAML Provider](/v1/docs/configure-okta)
- [Configure Azure ADFS](/v1/docs/configure-azure-adfs)

## LDAP/Active Directory

Polarity supports LDAP-/Active Directory-based authentication.