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Authentication Vs Authorization

Difference between Authentication & Authorization

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Authentication Vs Authorization

Difference between Authentication & Authorization

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Difference between

Authentication & Authorization


Authentication
authentication means knowing the users
of our application.
We use authentication (Google,
Facebook Sign-in, Phone Number ) to
know the basic details of our users like
their name, phone, email or other basic
profile info.
And once the authentication is done we
can save the user-specific details in our
DB.
For example, the orders placed by that
user, profile pic of the user etc.
Authorization
Authorization means the authority to
read or change a user's data.
for example, if we want to read/write the
Google Drive files of a user or if we want
to access Google Contacts then we first
need that authority from the user to
access his/her data.
Once the user permits the app to access
his/her data, the server returns one
access_token to the app.
So now, the client needs to pass this
access_token to access the APIs. (For
example Google Apis)
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