Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
27 lines (18 loc) · 754 Bytes

terminology.mdx

File metadata and controls

27 lines (18 loc) · 754 Bytes
id title
terminology
Terminology

The purpose of this document is to define terminology used through this documentation.

End-User

The person who actually uses a particular product that uses ORY Kratos.

Identity

the "who" of a software system. It can be a customer, employee, user, contractor, or even a programmatic identity such as an IoT device, application, or some other type of "robot."

Common aliases are "user", "user account", "account", "subject".

Self-Service

Interfaces and flows allowing customers to produce services independent of involvement of direct service employee.

You perform self-service registration when signing up for a new Goole account, because no one (e.g. support) else is involved in the process.