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Add short description about default authentication method in authorization docs
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calavera committed Mar 30, 2016
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**Note**: the abbreviations `AuthZ` and `AuthN` mean authorization and authentication
respectively.

## Default user authorization mechanism

If TLS is enabled in the [Docker daemon](https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/https/), the default user authorization flow extracts the user details from the certificate subject name.
That is, the `User` field is set to the client certificate subject common name, and the `AuthenticationMethod` field is set to `TLS`.

## Basic architecture

You are responsible for registering your plugin as part of the Docker daemon
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