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Re:Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" by pjerem on Monday May 27, 2024 @01:16PM (#40492708)
The issue is that they have the same prefix AND that unfortunately this prefix is used to abbreviate both words.

What does the "auth" module ?

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Re:Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" by diego_sandoval on Monday May 27, 2024 @02:14PM (#40493153)
We shouldn't use that abbreviation, then.
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Re:Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" by lsaferite on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @09:33AM (#40500599)
Given that _AuthN_ and _AuthZ_ are in common technical use, I would expect something handling _Auth_ to work on both _AuthN_ and _AuthZ_.
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Re:Instead of "auth", we should say "permissions" and "login" by ninininino on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @10:41AM (#40501188)
me, reading thread on hacker news, where a different team that used to build the auth service just transferred ownership of the service to my team, which builds the authz service....
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