What Is Authentication– Part I
- Posted by Giselle on February 27th, 2008 filed in News and Updates
by Andrea
Authentication is also used by web-based applications when the information showed to the user alters based on their identity. Authentication can make use a single username and password for all users of the site or personal usernames and passwords for each user. There are two distinctive processes for authenticating users to a web site. The first method uses features construct into the web server itself. When the site is set up on the server, it is flagged as needing authentication and a list of users and passwords is presented. The particulars of this method differ greatly depending on the web server being used.