Meanings
present singular third person authorizates · participle present authorizating · participle past authorizated · past authorizated · alternative authorisate
- ambitransitivenonstandardAmerican and Oxford British spelling; chiefly non-native speakers' English; American and Oxford British spelling; chiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo authorize.
How can I allow user to change his/her password when authorizating at the ISA Server (user can not access the domain controller, it is placed in the DMZ)?
2002 August 23, msnews.microsoft.com, “Password Expired...”, in microsoft.public.isa (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 20262 more examples
I have a Sparcstation5 running Red Hat 5.1 (2.0.35). Everything is working well, except programs that uses authentication process! The problem is: every authentication task takes TOO long to authorizate....
1999 February 12, Amilcar Simoes Silvestre, “Authentication problem in SPARC”, in redhat.networking.general (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026I have a tacacs+ server running on my FreeBSD for authenticating and authorizating dialup users connecting to Cisco NAS. I now^([sic]) how to use 'before authorization' and 'after authorization' programs at the start of connection.
2000 November 6, Victor M, “tacacs”, in fa.freebsd.questions (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026
Origin
Back-formation from authorization.
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