User management
User management is the administration of user accounts, identities, credentials, profile information, and access permissions in a system.
Spring Security in Action, Second Edition
User management is the administration of user identities, credentials, and related account information in an application.
- How it is used
- Configures the identities and credentials used while an application authenticates requests.
- How deep it goes
- Explains the main interfaces and their responsibilities, while deferring detailed password-encoder treatment.
- Examples
- Uses default Spring Security behavior, custom users and passwords, endpoint rules, and authentication-flow diagrams.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure authentication with custom users and passwords, then customize which endpoints require authentication.
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ASP.NET Core in Action, 3e
User management is the administration of application user accounts, credentials, profile details, claims, and account security settings.
- How it is used
- Administers application users and supplies security-related account services for sign-in workflows.
- How deep it goes
- Explains Identity responsibilities and service boundaries, but stops short of implementing the complete sign-in UI and integrations.
- Examples
- Uses database user records, claims, password rules, lockout, reset tokens, default Razor Pages, and two-factor authentication.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via ASP.NET Core Identity and its default UI to add user accounts and common authentication features.
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Related concepts
- administratorused by · An administrator is a user, account, role, or process granted elevated permissions to manage a system, application, or its resources and settings.
- single sign-onaddressed by · Single sign-on is an authentication arrangement in which one authentication event enables a user to access multiple applications or services without signing in separately to each.
- databaseuses · A database is an organized collection of persistent data managed by software for storage, retrieval, querying, and modification.
- UserDetailsServicehas part · UserDetailsService is a Spring Security interface for retrieving user-specific data required during authentication.
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