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Re:Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" by lelanthran on Monday May 27, 2024 @12:00PM (#40491999)
> Sometimes I feel like we enjoy fancy terms more than we enjoy unambiguous terms.

Could be we just enjoy precision more than anything else.

For lay people, maybe authn and authz are poor words. For those of us working with those words, they're a lot better than login and permission. I don't really want to call a function to get a "permission code" instead of an "authorization code".

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Re:Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" by ghnws on Monday May 27, 2024 @01:02PM (#40492579)
Authorization code? Do you mean authentication?
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Re:Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" by lelanthran on Monday May 27, 2024 @01:23PM (#40492777)
I don't mean authentication. An authorization code is something that is handed out to already authenticated identities.
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Re:Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" by danielmarkbruce on Monday May 27, 2024 @01:17PM (#40492711)
No, they probably don't. They probably know exactly what they are saying.
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