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Articles tagged with #authentication
Authentication answers who is calling. Authorization answers what they may do. A valid session cookie, SSO assertion, or "user is logged in" middleware only proves identity. It does not decide whether
A successful login answers one question: who is this? Authorization answers a different one: may this principal do this action on this resource right now? Treating "the user is authenticated" as enoug
A common API-key mistake is issuing a token that means “this user” and then letting every endpoint decide what that implies. Prefer tokens scoped to the action you intend: read invoices for tenant X,
When you promote, demote, or revoke a user's roles, existing sessions often keep the previous permissions until they expire. That gap is a common auth bug: the admin panel shows the new role, while th
