UTORauth is the University of Toronto’s authorization and authentication database. It is the central capability for managing identities and role-based access authorization to U of T resources.

UTORauth works in three ways:

1. Identification. Each person with a relationship to U of T is given central identifiers.
2. Authentication. UTORauth uses identifiers, such as the UTORid, for validation.
3. Authorization. UTORauth determines what users are authorized to do based on their roles.

For technical information about UTORauth functionality, see the Enterprise Service Centre (ESC) Knowledge Base article “How UTORauth works”.