Meanings
present singular third person authorisates · participle present authorisating · participle past authorisated · past authorisated
- Non-Oxford British spelling of authorizate.
Can anyone tell me how to authorisate apache(nobody:nobody) to send mails ??
2001 May 2, <boxfly@free.fr>, “Sendmail and php.”, in comp.mail.sendmail (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 20262 more examples
I authorisated my attorney to correspond to the embassy , but now I would like to correspond with them on my own, is it possible for me to do this?
2003 January 12, Larissa, “New regulations”, in misc.immigration.canada (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026However, this is clearly not easy to manage on a large scale and the desire is to migrate towards a centrally managed authorisating service, perhaps based on an LDAP directory.
2003 September 30, Tim Alsop, “Kerberos / PAM Usage ?”, in comp.protocols.kerberos (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026
Origin
Back-formation from authorisation.
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