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[docs] Update authentication docs with link to Router (#7826)
Add links to Router docs for those who may land on the page from external or internal direct links
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- **Authentication** is determining whether a given user is logged in, and subsequently determining _which_ user someone is.
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- **Authorization** is then determining what a given user has permission to do or see.
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<Tip>
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Apollo Router can now provide authentication and authorization for your entire supergraph. While it may make sense to re-apply auth checks at a subgraph level or in a monolith graph, the Apollo Router has built and provided standard JWT checks that can be setup with a simple YAML configuration and enforce this in a central location for all subgraphs:
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https://www.apollographql.com/blog/centrally-enforce-policy-as-code-for-graphql-apis
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</Tip>
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## Putting authenticated user info in your `contextValue`
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