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<h1>What is authentication?</h1>
<p>Authentication is the process of answering the question "Who are you?". You will need to check if a user's credentials against the data source. The most common data source can be a table in your database. Sometimes, the data source can be Azure Active Directory, Active Directory and so on.</p>
<p>The users can provide their credentia