what is the difference between authorization and
authentication?
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Answer / sujith
authorization means being capable to access some data or
application
authentication is a process of being identified by certain
condition to become authorized...... but at the same time
authentication might not be the only criterion to become
authorized......
There is a narrow gap between these two terms.....
take an example.....
to enter into your e-mail account , you
should be authenticated by user id and pwd... however it
doesn't mean that you are fully authorized to access the
whole page,
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Answer / ashu_deepu
in short
authorisation means giving the authority to a person to have access to resources.
but
authentication means checking whether that person have the access to resources.
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Answer / kiran
authorization is the process of granting some privileges to
a particular object
authentication is the process of validation - if he is
allowed to access something-
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Answer / gmvlakshmi
Authentication checks whether the user is valid user or not.
Authorization describes which applications or data an user
can access
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