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Add additional information about public tokens and query parameters #515

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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions app/content/react/guides/authentication-and-authorization.md
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## Authentication and Authorization

This guide shows how you can create private and public applications. We can classify the applications in two:
This guide shows how authentication and authorization work with custom applications. We can classify the applications in two categories:

- Private applications. Requires a login against the CARTO platform.
- Private applications. Require a login against the CARTO platform.

- Public applications. The user does not need to log into the application. Access to data is provided through a token.

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To create a public application, you need to create a token with access to all of the datasets required by the application and introduce the token in the application config (`src/store/initialStateSlice.js`).

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Because of security reasons the SQL cannot be modified by the user in a private application
Only the specific tables and specific SQL queries added to the token can be used in the application. If you specify a table, you cannot make an arbitrary query using that table, only add the data source with the type equals to MAP_TYPES.TABLE. If you specify a query, you can use [query parameters](../query-parameters) to specify, for instance, different parameters in the WHERE clause.
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With the following changes we're going to make the private application public.
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