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title: Administration - Registration and authentication
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

Xperience provides an integration API based on [ASP.NET Identity](https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/tree/master/src/Identity) used when managing users with access to the Xperience administration.

> **Info:** Note that this information applies only to users with access to the administration interface. For documentation about regular application users, see [Registration and authentication](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/development/registration-and-authentication.md)

- [User management](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/users/user-management.md) – contains an overview of the available user management functionality.
- [Role management](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/users/role-management.md) – introduction to the role-based access control system used by the admin UI.
- [Administration - Forms authentication](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/users/administration-registration-and-authentication/administration-forms-authentication.md) – provides information about the default Identity configuration used by the admin UI and its options.
- [Administration - External authentication](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/developers-and-admins/configuration/users/administration-registration-and-authentication/administration-external-authentication.md) – describes how to connect and configure an external authentication provider for single sign-on purposes.