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Authentication is the process of
verifying the identity of a user.
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It's often used in conjunction with
authorization, which is the process of
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granting or denying access to a resource,
based on the authenticated identity.
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So, in our case, a user must be logged
in to access the authenticated and
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settings routes.
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There are many authentication schemes, but
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in this course,
we'll focus on basic authentication,
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in which the user provides a user ID,
in our case, a username and password.
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The user ID and password are paired and
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