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Replace "clients" with "users" in authentication docs

Open ricab opened this issue 10 months ago • 3 comments

Description of documentation issue or suggestion Docs relating to authentication usually describe clients being trusted. Here's an example. But it is not clients themselves that are trusted, it is the users who run them.

Proposal to fix issue or enact suggestion Reword docs as needed to replace the notion of authenticating clients with authenticating users.

Additional context

Note that:

  • A user that is trusted can use either the CLI or the GUI clients (or any other client, provided they correctly pass on their certificate).
  • A client that authenticated when running as a given user, will not be considered authenticated when running as another user (unless that user is also trusted).

ricab avatar Jun 12 '25 16:06 ricab

Hi @ricab I can help with this. seems like a straight forward issue. Let me know I can give a PR.

ayaankhan98 avatar Jun 13 '25 20:06 ayaankhan98

Hi @ayaankhan98, you can, of course! Thanks again for your interest.

ricab avatar Jun 16 '25 10:06 ricab

@ricab I have created the PR, please review and let me know if it needs any changes.

ayaankhan98 avatar Jun 17 '25 11:06 ayaankhan98