Login
<jargon> (Or "log in", "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 user's user name and password and starts an
interactive session.
