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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion cookbook/security/custom_provider.rst
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Expand Up @@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ When a user submits a username and password, the authentication layer asks
the configured user provider to return a user object for a given username.
Symfony then checks whether the password of this user is correct and generates
a security token so the user stays authenticated during the current session.
Out of the box, Symfony has an "in_memory" and an "entity" user provider.
Out of the box, Symfony has four user providers: ``in_memory``, ``entity``,
``ldap`` and ``chain``.
In this entry you'll see how you can create your own user provider, which
could be useful if your users are accessed via a custom database, a file,
or - as shown in this example - a web service.
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