confirmation that a user is who they claim to be, either by verifying what they know (password), what they have (a key) or what they are (fingerprints).
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6answers
870 views
Forcing users to use a particular pattern for passwords
Many websites, specially government ones, enforce users to use a password which conforms to particular criteria. For example: use between 8-13 characters with at-least one integer and one capital ...
20
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2answers
358 views
What's better for invitation emails: a temporary password or a one-time login url?
Our web app allows our customers to invite their collaborators into their account. They can submit the new user's email address, and our app sends the new user an email inviting them to login. Once ...
20
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5answers
847 views
Whats more user friendly local authentication or remote authentication (OpenID, OAuth)
from a usability perspective only (not security) what do users find more comfortable
A site with it's own login page (need to sign up but then easier to login)
or a site with remote authentication ...
15
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5answers
881 views
Should I use two steps or one when users change password?
I currently have a page dedicated to changing passwords. There are 2 options:
A 2 step option:
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8answers
2k views
How to tell the user his login credentials are incorrect?
When a user has entered incorrect details into a login form, is it better to tell them:
The username or password you have entered is invalid.
or
The user name you have entered is invalid (for ...
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6answers
616 views
What is the best way to request individual characters from a password?
Frequently, sites that should really value security (especially banks) ask for several individual characters from a password.
Typically I've seen them do it like this:
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votes
3answers
311 views
Is it bad practice not to allow users to create an account (versus OAuth or OpenID)?
When creating a website is it poor practice not to give users the option to "create an account"? Especially with rapid development, it seems more secure with less effort to offload authentication. ...
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5answers
376 views
Why would you, for a local authentication site, have usernames, instead of using e-mail address to login?
In websites where authentication is local, or mixed local and remote (e.g. OpenID), I still often see the question for a username. I can very well understand this in the case of twitter, where the ...
6
votes
2answers
208 views
How can I encourage users to authenticate?
I am working on a post-sale customer support project for a US high street retailer (for the rest of this post I will refer to them as 'Jon's Cellphones'). The program will enable customers who ...
5
votes
3answers
160 views
Logging in with email only
I'm working on a blog and there will be an option to post a comment.
I could implement registration with username, password and email — the standard way. I could implement 3rd-party authorization ...
5
votes
4answers
377 views
How do I best tell a user that his/her account will be locked if they enter the wrong credentials too many times?
We are going to add an additional layer of security to our product by locking user accounts for a short period of time (configurable in the product, but probably 5-10 minutes) when a user has tried to ...
5
votes
1answer
132 views
How important is social sign-up to attracting new users?
Many website, including this one, are using social sign-up to speed up new user registrations. I'd like to know what are the adoption rates of this service, and whether there are any pitfalls to using ...
5
votes
3answers
433 views
Should my app send a confirmation email on user registration?
I'm grappling with the user registration experience for my application.
I'm considering this model:
User enters...
Username
Password
Password confirmation
Email address
The app displays a ...
5
votes
4answers
240 views
Biometrics Activated UI
I'm having a problem regarding a user interface with bio-metrics inter action in employee logging in/out. The employee needs to choose whether he/she will login or logout and enter his/her employee ...
5
votes
2answers
59 views
Masked password characters in a GUI vs terminal
In a GUI form, or for example a login box on a website, it's usual for masked characters to appear like ********* as you type out your password.
But in terminal applications, for example ssh, this ...
5
votes
1answer
111 views
What OpenID log-in screen is appropriate for people who don't understand SAML, OpenID, or Federation?
Every person that I've introduced to Stackexchange has had the same question/problem... that is they are confused by options to log using "gmail" or "hotmail" and assume that this is an email ...
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votes
6answers
350 views
Is there a way to disallow multiple votes from one user without forcing authentication? [closed]
I'm looking for a way to prohibit voting rigging (cache/cookie-clearing, etc.) without requiring the user to jump through hoops (registration, authentication, etc.). Any ideas?
4
votes
4answers
206 views
Business application: Is it better to redirect or pop-up for re-authentication?
This question is geared for a line of business application someone would pay for, not a general public facing website.
Is it better to redirect for authentication/re-authentication or show a pop-up?
...
4
votes
2answers
146 views
How to request a third-party login within a seperate mobile application
I'm designing a mobile app that requires the user to log-in with their LinkedIn account.
I feel I might have cluttered too much info into it, but everything seems to be important.
I want the user ...
4
votes
3answers
225 views
Is offering more than one openid/social-sign-in option a good idea?
Lots of sites nowadays offer the option to log in via Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on, and sometimes a standard username/password option as well.
While this goes a long way toward helping users ...
3
votes
4answers
358 views
Password validation in login form
In registration form, I have client side validation for strength of password. For example password should be not less than 6 symbols, consists at least 1 digit, and at least 1 letter.
For example: ...
3
votes
1answer
171 views
Looking for 'planner' design patterns and opinions
We are designing a revamped part-time studies course catalogue at the post-secondary institution where I work. One of the features I have included is an authenticated planner for saving and ...
3
votes
1answer
62 views
Mass user authentication for a bracket system
I'm currently setting up a layout for a website that's going to be a sort of "bracket" website, where users can sign up and they can be approved/denied by an administrator. I'm currently at a ...
2
votes
6answers
724 views
WebApp User Login Screen
I am currently considering options for a web/intranet application login screen and this seems like a good place to share.
Not much work has gone into the current screen since creation and it exists ...
2
votes
1answer
81 views
User Authentication/Timeout for web-app with personal Information
The concept behind "Remember my Username" and even allowing browsers to save your "username and password" for this site seems like it could be controversial.
Given that different audiences prefer ...
2
votes
1answer
163 views
Best way to add account providers?
I briefly looked at spotify and I found that they use 2 providers: Themselves and facebook. Ie I can log in to spotify with facebook. But then it asks me for my spotify account when I downloaded the ...
2
votes
2answers
177 views
When is user authentication really necessary?
Better said, how much harder is to mantain a forum/message-board/community webiste with unauthenticated users and what would be the benefits and disadvantages in comparison to an account-based one?
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1
vote
2answers
135 views
Authentication pop up on a desktop app: what if it is much bigger than main app window?
I am working on a desktop app that requires authentication. It allows federated authentication using different services, Google among them. Most probably, we'll use a pop up with a browser window to ...
0
votes
1answer
91 views
How should I go about integrating Mozilla Persona in a website?
For those who've never heard of it before, Mozilla Persona is a single sign-on method that's pretty strict on privacy. For me, as a website administrator, it means that I don't need to ask the user ...
0
votes
1answer
100 views
When should “Log on” or “Log off” be used? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using “Sign in” vs using “Log in”
I'm porting an old application that has a "Log on" screen. When would I use "Log on" vs the alternatives (Sign ...
0
votes
0answers
51 views
Are users more likely to sign up with social login? [duplicate]
These days social login (via Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc.) is becoming more and more popular. But it has problems: some users are reluctant to link their accounts on different sites to each other, ...
