Questions tagged [registration]

Registration can refer to:

(-) The act of making an identity on a service (like getting a Facebook account) (-) The process of getting credentials from a service (like using OpenID to login to Stack Exchange) (-) The protocol to get information from a system (like getting updates from a Forum you want to follow)

Registration can refer to:

  • The act of making an identity on a service (like getting a Facebook account)
  • The process of getting credentials from a service (like using OpenID to login to Stack Exchange)
  • The protocol to get information from a system (like getting updates from a forum you want to follow)

This tag should be applied when a question is about:

  • A security issue that can occur with a registration process.
  • A question about an attack vector on the registration process.
  • A question security consideration for a registration process.
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What is this user-friendly device registration process called?

Logging in with a username/password can be annoying on non-keyboard devices (game consoles, Rokus, etc). Many media apps on these devices improve on this process by letting me activate my device on my account via these steps: I download and open…
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best practices for handling self-registration?

For example, with a bank's credit card activation/registration, that user is required to authenticate with a unique code that was mailed to their address. If they don't get that mailout-with-the-code, they'd be SOL. With that in mind, we'd like to…
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Enrolling Users Best Practices

I am working on a site where the administrators enroll the users. Currently, after the user is created, they are assigned a password and sent an email with a link that has them confirm their email. After that, they can log in. Is it a good idea to…
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What are the disadvantages of logging someone in on register?

So presuming a username/password authentication system (not an SSO) if you register a new user, what's the disadvantage of logging them in before verifying their account by email? Let's presume that by logging them in they won't have access to…
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