Overview: User identity and access

Media-server access connects accepted identity and session state with the rules governing requested resources.

Reaching the server is followed by another decision: who is making the request and what that identity may do. Sessions supply a continuing authentication relationship, while library and rating rules govern particular media access. The two branches keep identity evidence separate from the resource decision.

• Identity and sessions
  Identity and session concepts distinguish authentication evidence, account scope and permission decisions.

• Media access rules
  Media-access rules apply account and resource policies to particular libraries or rating-related content.