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 the process that allows an application to verify that a person (or another application, smart card, and so on) is the one that it claimed to be when connecting with it. Authorization defines a user's rights and permissions in a system. After a user is authenticated, authorization determines what that user has the authority to do on the system. Authorization, therefore, is typically assumed to follow authentication.