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Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”
Monday, May 27, 2024 Most computer systems we interact with have an auth system of some kind. The problem is, that sentence is at best unclear and at worst nonsense.
They're clunky and hard to understand: they're not universal enough to be able to skip explanation; they're easy to mishear and are close together; and what verb forms would we even use? Both are terms that will make sense with little explanation (in contrast to "authn" and "authz", which are confusing on first encounter) since almost everyone has logged into a system and has run into permissions issues. The noun form is "login", which refers to the information you enter to gain access to the system.
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