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I sympathise with the author wanting to make the meaning of these more obvious, but login is not a good synonym for authentication.

Login implies the process of obtaining a session by providing some credentials; this is not the same as authenticating, which can be achieved without requiring a session (e.g. bearer token).

I do quite like permissions for authorisation though.



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