Authentication is the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it is declared to be.
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Creating Original Database Algorithm--Login System
For fun, I have been making a very basic login system in Python. I was going to look up an algorithm or something for user info storage and transfer, but then decided it would be more fun to come up ...
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Login authentication model
I have made my model global so that I can work only a model with several controllers. Is it good or bad practice? And according to this, is my login process secure?
Login check function in ...
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Open server asking for a password
It first creates a server and waits to connect. Once the client connects to the server he gets the line. If he puts the correct code he gets output -> good job. If not -> the software disconnects.
My ...
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Register/Login and authentication through terminal
This is a registration and login program I made in Python that runs through the terminal. I am new to programming so I didn't have any actual use for this, I simply made it for practice. Please give ...
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Front-end login system
After some googling for about 2 days, I am here with a simple wordpress front-end login system.
Please let me know if there is anything wrong with it, or if there is anything I can do, for improving ...
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Basic OS login program
I have just finished the sololearn C++ course and wanted to create a basic login program in the vein of a basic operating system.
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Checking two text field for match and checking for null
Is this the most efficient way to do this? Any suggestions on some thing I might have missed or can do better?
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“Remember me” functionality for a website
I have read a few SO threads to implement remember_me functionality.
Steps I have followed:
User clicks on login button and if passes client side validation, it goes to php Login page.
First time
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Authentication using PDO
I'm new to PDO, so I was wondering if you guys could check over my PDO code for efficiency (and if the PHP can be improved)
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Secure login system
The assignment is to create a login system secured for SQL injections and XSS.
It's in PHP and I'm using PDO with prepared statements obviously. Which from my point of view should protect against the ...
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One way encoding a password
I wrote a script that one way encrypts a user's password by generating a key, and multiplies by the ASCII value of the character and the ASCII value of the key character at (the position that the ...
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A very secure procedural MySQLI login script against injections
I know there are other ways to create a login script like Object Oriented, Prepared Statements and PDO, but how about those old MySQL PHP users like me trying to change from old style to the new ways? ...
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A PHP User System
This PHP User System was built with MySQLi and I also used Composer. I'm planning to improve this, and add more stuff and release it as a sort of a module for Composer.
User.php (Controller File in ...
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Avoiding callback chaining in authenticator
I'm developing an iOS Application in Swift that uses Google Cloud Endpoints as its backend. For now, I've just written the code for the user to login with his Gmail account and I've refactored it as ...
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PHP login system security using a database, cookies and sessions
I created a simple login system using just sessions but having to login every time gets annoying. That is why I'm no trying to save the sessions to my database linked to the user's account. I will ...
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Validate IP address and create a registration attempt
I'm a C++/Python developer attempting to learn JavaScript, but I'm struggling to write clean code. I've read that async.waterfall and Promises are two ways to flatten the code a bit, but my ...
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Simple login system in prolog
The code produces a dialog that allows a user to enter information, then verifies the information and allows the user to have access. Is there any way to improve the code?
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Login and registration functions
I'm currently learning C# as first programming language and I've made a simple program to exercise the basic concepts. It's nothing fancy especially compared to advanced stuff you normally talk about, ...
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PHP CSRF eliminator
There are three functions involved. The first Init is run before the content is parsed. The second is parseContent where the ...
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Encrypting and decrypting passwords in PHP
I am wanting to encrypt a password and decrypt a password using PHP. Is this a safe method?
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A Simple, One-Page PHP Admin Login (with prepared SQL statements)
First off, I want mention that this code works well. This is more of a request for suggestions...
We're attempting to program a one-page, recursive, token-based admin shell that is safe from ...
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Login Authentication
Please check this PHP script. This script is for Login authentication
Some pre-defined constants to indicate the login state
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Authentication system - AngularJS & Ionic Framework
I am building a small mobile app using ionic framework and angularJS. It will consume a Restful Web Service that requires authentication (User token). This means I need to keep my users token by ...
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PHP user account login with salt
I'm creating a user account login with PHP and Mysql which will be used by school teachers. To login there are 3 items required : school, username and password. This will allow for 2 of "MRSMITH" in ...
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Rewriting authentication controller using promises
I am in the process of refactoring some complex code that uses callbacks to instead use promises. I am trying to figure out if my proposed approaches make sense.
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A User class for visitors to register and log in to a site
I'm just looking for some feedback on my User class. The class is designed to handle users being able to register, login, and logout of the site. I'll be using it in conjunction with a forum I'm also ...
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Asynchronous login form handler
I have an app that user submit the log in form , when it sent the data to server app create a connection for its account.
In this connection i have an integer field named as state.
the state value is ...
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Authorization token from servlet filter stores user name
I'm having some difficulty with servlet and filter lifecycles. The intention here is to use the front controller pattern with a simple login; authentication is accomplished with the filter.
Am I ...
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Online store for pies - Part 2: User authentication
I'm building an angular application using AngularJS and AngularFire. As this is the second part of this "series" it might be a good idea to also check out part 1 to gain an even better overview of the ...
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Immunity of login/signup class to all types of attacks
I am going to use the following class which is very simple to use and get user info in pages:
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Secure and optimize Mongoose model component
Please help in deciding if this method for a Mongoose model component for user authentication can be made more secure and optimized, for efficiency and platform independence.
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MahApps login dialog in splash screen with Caliburn Micro
We are working on an application with a splash screen. After a few seconds/loading all the data, a login dialog appears inside the splash screen, asking you to enter username and password. Think of a ...
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Swift project using PHP web service
I was hoping for someone to review my current project, which was created in Swift and uses a PHP web service. I'm not worried about UI elements, as this is just a 'test' project, but I'm concerned ...
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Is this minimal Go cookie authentication system safe?
I'm working on a login system in Go (Golang). Previously, I was using Gorilla Sessions for this, but I wanted to see if I could reinvent the wheel and make it simpler.
Also, I don't need to store ...
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PHP login redirect security
I wish to redirect users to the login page if they attempt to visit a page which requires them to be logged in. After logging in, however, I want to redirect the user back to their original ...
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WCF Duplex service authentication
I have been thinking about a way to implement this and I am not sure that what I have done is correct, because it surely sounds kinda dirty to me.
Basically what I have is a WCF duplex service which ...
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Testable authentication handler for web API
I need to unit test my authentication handler. I don't really want do an assert against the text message returned by the handler. How could this be improved ?
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Security of login and register system
I need some help with my register and log in functions. I'm not sure if I have understood bcrypt correctly either. I'm doubting the security of it, what do you ...
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Social network message board website security
I have a script that contains functions from login in to posting status to friend request send and receive. Pretty much a social network script. Anyways i think my security is not up to date so if ...
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Authentication with JWT
Please review my code for 'JWT' authentication.
Are there any security issues?
Where should I store the secret's key, DB or InMemory?
What's a good 'JWT' Lifetime?
Should I send the 'JWT' in Header ...
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Registration and Login: Best way to separate responsibilities
Based on lots of read books, sometimes I get quite confused when things get bigger than the simple examples. Martin Fowler's clean code is good but not enough.
I want some feedback on how to improve ...
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Secure authentication using JavaScript module pattern and an AJAXified modal window
This code is not live, but for brevity I'll write as though it is.
When a user clicks any element with the class name js-modalOpen, for example:
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AngularJS Login Check
I have states that have a requiredlogin object set as true, then I have Angular listen on ...
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Is my Node/Express-based authentication implementation with session properly done?
I know that Passport.js exists, however, I wanted to code my own implementation using express-session module.
I'm using:
Express
Mongoose
express-session
So I basically have 2 routes for handling ...
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Best way to implement j_security login
I have a j_security login implemented but it's been giving me a lot of problems and wanted to know if there's anything that sticks out as incorrect or outright ...
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Authentication service
This is the AuthenticationService I made based on Barry Jaspan's design, which is way better than the code of which I asked in a question a couple of months ago.
I ...
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PHP Login Check
I use this block of code to check if the user is logged in (login stored in cookies as a plain text and pass MD5 crypted). As I'm a novice in PHP, I'm not sure that this is a correct way. Are there ...
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Prompt for Windows Credentials via Dialog [closed]
I have some code that requires the user (an admin) elevate to a system admin account to perform a task.
I wish to prompt the user for the admin credentials to use.
I believe returning a ...
