Authorization vs authentication: logged in isn't the same as allowed

Lesson 5 of who are you: the app knows who you are. That's a different question from what you're allowed to touch. The gap between the two is where… Aliteq Sam Ortega · Build Editor

Authentication is who you are; authorization is what you're allowed to touch

Being logged in does not mean being allowed everything

A logged-in user reaching another user's data is an authorization failure, fixed with rules like RLS

Every private table needs an authorization rule, not just a login screen. Ask your AI tool, per table: "what stops a logged-in user from reading another user's rows here?" If the answer is…

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