INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

An information processing apparatus usable via a plurality of user interfaces, and a method of controlling the same, having a plurality of authentication processing modules configured to perform a user authentication for each of the plurality of user interfaces respectively. Setting information of authentication processing for each of the plurality of authentication processing modules and setting information of authentication processing by a common authentication processing module for performing a user authentication common to the plurality of user interfaces are held. If the user authentication by the common authentication processing module succeeds using the held setting information, based on user information input via an authentication screen of any one of the plurality of user interfaces, the user authentication is performed based on the held setting information of the user interface.