WASD offers a comprehensive and versatile authentication and authorization environment. A little too comprehensive, often leaving the new administrator wondering where to begin. The role of this chapter is to provide a starting place, especially for sources of authentication, along with some basic configurations. 11 - Authentication and Authorization contains a detailed explanation of all aspects.
All examples here assume a standard installation and environment.
Just to clarify. Authorization is allowing a certain action to be applied to a particular path based on that identity. This setup allows any active account to authenticate using the local VMS username and password. By default not every account may authenticate this way, only those holding specified VMS rights identifiers. See 11.9.1 - Rights Identifiers .