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Admin
A people record that that has the admin checkbox checked, which enables the user to edit the website
Admin User
A person who is logged in as with a people record that has the admin checkbox checked
Authenticated
When the user uses an identity from the people table
Authentication
A process where a user proves they can be associated to one of the records in the people table.
Authorization
A method to assign permission or rights to a people record (in groups, administrator, developer, etc.)
Guest
A record in the people table that has no authorization (not in groups, not admin, not developer, etc.)
Guest user
A user who is not logged in
Log-in
The act of entering credentials that result in authentication
Log-out
The act of disassociating a user from people table records
People
A table of records in the database that represent individuals
User
The person at the keyboard
