Terms
From Contensive Wiki
- 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