Questions tagged [registration]

Registration is a process through which a person or entity provides some necessary information about himself to the company or other entity he/it wants to be registered with.

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What restrictions should I impose on usernames

What restrictions should I impose on usernames? why? What restrictions should I not impose on usernames? why? P.S. db is via best-practice PDO so no risk of sql injection Thanks
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what is the best way to generate a reset token in python?

I'm trying to make a validation process for a password reset, what i've used are two values: the epoch time, and i want to use the users's old password (pbkdf2) as a key, Since i dont want to get non ASCII characters, i've used SimpleEncode library…
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rails 3 + devise: how to modify the mailer method for confirmation emails to add user's second email address

Background: In our app, we often have a sales rep do the setup for our customer using the salesperson's computer (often customers don't have access to their email at the time we set them up). So we're thinking to add a field to the devise…
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What is the best way to ban/block users with Devise for Rails?

I'm using Devise for authentication in my rails app and I'd like to be able to block certain accounts and prevent users from reregistering with a blocked email. I'm just not sure what the best way is to go about it. My first thought was to override…
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Why do I get a "auth_user does not exist"error when running "migrate" on a newly created django project with "registration redux" app installed?

Given a newly created django project with the following installed apps: INSTALLED_APPS =…
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how to register more than 10 apps in Google App Engine

Anyone knows any "legal" way to surpass the 10-app-limit Google imposes? I wouldn't mind to pay, or anything, but I wasn't able to find a way to have more than 10 apps and can't either remove one.
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Saving profile with registration in Django-Registration

In Django-Registration it says you can save a custom profile when you save a user. But I have no idea what the documentation is asking me to do. Here is what they say: To enable creation of a custom user profile along with the User (e.g., the…
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sending username and password through email after user registration in web application

What is your opinion on sending the username and password to their email address when they register on our website..this way if they forget the password in the future, they can look it up in their email...also we wont have to implent the…
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iOS How to allow users to register an account / How to make a database of users

I am in the planning stages of building an App for iphone / ipad (yes, very early stages) I am basically wondering how much work is involved in having a seperate user registration process for an app i.e. letting users register an account and use…
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How to use custom password validators beside the django auth password validators?

As the question above mentioned, I will trying to use a certain extra rule to validate a password during the registration process. The extra rule should be that a password is validate if it has at least one digit, one letter and one special…
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How do 25-character product keys work?

Microsoft products and other products often have a product key that is 5 groups of 5 characters, like this: ABCDE-12345-ABCDE-12345-VWXYZ How does the product know if the key is valid? Some sort of cryptography? Is there a library if I want to…
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Internal Redirect in Flask

In short: By only using the Flask micro-framework (and its dependencies) can we perform an internal redirect from one route to another? For example: User submits the registration form (both username and password) to @app.route('/register',…
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Consul not deregistering zombie services

I am deploying a simple hello world nginx container with marathon, and everything seems to work well, except that I have 6 containers that will not deregister from consul. docker ps shows none of the containers are running. I tried using the…
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Django: How to check if username already exists?

I am not very advanced user of Django. I have seen many different methods online, but they all are for modified models or too complicated for me to understand. I am reusing the UserCreationForm in my MyRegistrationForm class…
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Should user auto-login after registration?

Is it safe to login user automatically after registration? User fills registration form, some info message is sent to his mailbox, and what then: User redirected to login page asking him for credentials; OR User auto-logins as his newly created…
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