12 INTERACTIVE AUTHENTICATION
When you authenticate to your Windows system, you’ll usually access a login interface, enter your credentials, and be greeted with the desktop. But quite a lot happens behind the scenes to make this authentication process work. Interactive authentication is the mechanism that converts a set of credentials into a Token object that you can use to interact with authorization systems, such as access checks.
Windows uses many types of interactive authentication for a variety of purposes. For example, it uses one type when a user creates an interactive desktop and another when the user has provided credentials to a ...
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