What is Auth provider in Salesforce?

<div data-md=”61″ lang=”en-IN”><div aria-level=”3″ role=”heading” data-attrid=”wa:/description” data-hveid=”CAoQAQ”>An authentication provider lets your users log in to your Salesforce org using their login credentials from an external identity provider, such as Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Salesforce provides default authentication providers where Salesforce manages the required configuration values.

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