Questions tagged [login]
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Design of a passwordless signup and signin
I am currently planning to create an application. So far I have always been using the traditional username/password approach. But I would like to get rid of passwords for user authentication. This ...
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What is the purpose of identifier-first login screens?
Companies like Google and Microsoft use identifier-first screens: where you provide your identifier (like an email) before providing the password.
Why is this done, is this somehow more secure?
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How to use auto-login for an API when building a desktop app?
I am currently building a small application which used a public API to get some information. The API doesn't support auto-login in any way (don't know if something like this even exists with APIs), ...
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Good/clean practice for building the auth part of an application
I'm starting on a greenfield project and haven't done or architected the sign-up/sign-in and auth part of the backend in a very long time, so my knowledge on the nowadays' good practices is very ...
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How should I manage SQL Server logins for a desktop application?
I'm looking for a bit of guidance or someone to point me in the right direction.
I have a C# WPF desktop application which accesses a local SQL Server Express database. The application is on a single ...
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Async - why have an async for a login?
C# web scaffolding has an async call for every member. Why?
For example: Async for a login call makes no sense. User has to wait for validation. What else would the app do until the application ...
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OAuth2.0 Grant Type for User Logged In With Google
I have a confusion. So, in OAuth2.0 there are 4 types of Grant (Authorization Code, Password, Client Credentials and Implicit). In my use case, I have two login scenario. The first one is using ...
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Best approach to creating a secure offline login system in C#?
I'm rather new at programming so I'm still getting a grip on things.
I'm creating an offline login system in C# that will have the ability add/remove users. The computer will not be connected to the ...
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Is it a good idea to allow multiple account login (in the same browser)
I am implementing Authentication from scratch (php).
I reached a point where I have different types of users (admin, author, editor etc.)
After dealing with this, I realized I can allow multiple ...
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So I am creating a user registration system with oauth login to four services. How do I handle username selection?
My registration system normally asks for 4 things:
The user's full name, their email, their preferred username, and a password.
I want to add four oauth2 registration services to make it easier and ...
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How to process a login form data?
I have created a login form for my website, but the issue is how to process the data provided in the form by the uses.
You see, I can't just write a basic function like this one -
myfunction(){
if(...
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Architecture - Whether/Where to store 3rd party IDs
I've got an application where users can log in with varying levels of permissions. From their client they send a username & password to the front end, which passes it to the back end, and from ...
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Should I separate the REST sessions from the sessions in the rest of the application?
Assuming I have resources I restrict access to with a username + password login in my web application and in my REST API. Should I keep different sessions for both meaning that a login via the web UI ...
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Single-sign-on login logic and application logic on front-end
Let's say I have multiple Angular/React/Vue applications which I want to enable users to log in once and be able to access all my applications.
What I want to solve / ask about is where should I keep ...
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User identity and microservices
I have created a User service that controls user login using OAuth2 protocol and stores the user in the local database. So this service is aware of the user session and user identity.
Now I have ...
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