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+The ``user_authn`` app contains user authentication related features such as
+login and registration.
+
+* Ideally this would be in its own service, but at this point, LMS is the home
+  of all authentication related features.
+
+* At this time, these features are still plugged into Studio. Future clean-up
+  in Studio is intended to make this an LMS only feature.