In the trailer department we carry Jet Co, Haulass, and Dynaweld. We also have an assorted inventory of used cars, Ford, Chevy, Mercury, and GMC, Volkswagen, Honda, Dodge and Nissans, Trucks, Vans and SUVâs.
In short, please. :-). Authentication = login + password (who you are). Authorization = permissions (what you are allowed to do). Short auth is most likely to refer either to the first one or to both.
Authentication is a process in which the security infrastructure makes sure that the users are who they say they are. In order to do this, the security infrastructure collects the user's credentials, usually in the form of user ID and password, checks those credentials against any credentials' store.