Developing Applications with Azure Active Directory: Principles of Authentication and Authorization for Architects and Developers

© Manas Mayank and Mohit Garg 2019

M. Mayank, M. GargDeveloping Applications with Azure Active Directoryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5040-2_9

9. Introduction to Authorization

Manas Mayank¹  and Mohit Garg¹

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Hyderabad, India

 

Throughout this book, we have discussed authentication and the process of authenticating users for different scenarios. We talked about authenticating users in different types of applications and through various types of providers. Authentication deals with identifying who the user is. It provides the user an identity and determines if the user can access the application. An application might want to restrict what a user can do within the application. This process of defining the permissions that a user has is called ...