meaning of login

1. LOGIN 1. An object-oriented deductive language and database system integrating logic programming and inheritance. ["LOGIN: A Logic Programming Language with Built-In Inheritance", H. Ait-Kaci et al, J Logic Programming 33:185-215 1986]. log in Or "login", "log on", "logon" To start a session with a system, usually by giving a user name and password as a means of user authentication. The term is also used to mean the ability to access a service also called an account, e. g. "Have you been given a login yet?" "Log in/on" is occasionally misused to refer to starting a session where no authorisation is involved, or to access where there is no session involved. E. g. "Log on to our Web site!" "login" is also the Unix program which reads and verifies a users user name and password and starts an interactive session. To end a session is to "log out" or "off".

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