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A user account is a data object that represents a physical user of a computer system. Commonly, user accounts are represented as database objects.

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create account then verify (or verify then create account)

Most of the examples I see on the web create user accounts in this sequence: user comes to the site, they choose a username and password and enter their email. A confirmation email to sent to this email and if they click the link, the account gets…
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User account activation, e-mail confirmation, and invitations with Passport / Node.Js

I want to set up 3 things for my user authentication system running on Passport / Neo4J: 1) Manual user account activation (so that admin does it); 2) Invite-only account creation; 3) E-mail confirmation of account before activation; I was wondering…
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How come my Meteor app with accounts package is not sending a verification email?

I am making a meteor app and I have the mrt accounts-password package added as well as mrt accounts-ui-bootstrap-dropdown. I have added the loginbuttons so users can create an account and that works just fine. I am using all defaults. On the…
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Central vs. Distributed Authentication and Authorization

I have some confusions on OAuth-related topics and I hope someone can help me clear them up :) Feel free to correct me on any point where I'm off the mark. So let's say that my web company runs a number of websites on different…
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Create user for running a daemon, on MacOS X?

What is the right way to create a user on MacOS X, from the command line, which will be used only for running a sever application? For example, there is already the '_www' user for Apache httpd, but for the new application I want it to be using its…
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How to detect if iCloud account on a device changed?

How to detect if iCloud account being used on a device changed? A user signs out from Settings > iCloud and another user signs in his/her account. How to detect this change when the app is opened?
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How do I get a user's email address using accounts-facebook in Meteor?

I created a Meteor app that allows users to sign on using Facebook. To do this, I'm using the accounts-ui and accounts-facebook packages. This works fine. How do I retrieve the user's email address once they've signed on? I understand that this…
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Laravel - Deleting auth user account while user is logged in

I'm trying to build a function where a user can delete their own account while they are logged in. I'm struggling to find any example or logic/best practices. The controller looks like this: public function postDestroy() { $user =…
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Verify user password in Meteor

There are some irreversible actions that user can do in my app. To add a level of security, I'd like to verify that the person performing such an action is actually the logged in user. How can I achieve it? For users with passwords, I'd like a…
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How to get an icon associated with specific Account from AccountManager.getAccounts()

There is an icon displayed in account settings for each account. For Google account there is one icon, for Facebook another. Is there a way of getting this icon from the code in application?
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Any source for commonly restricted keywords for usernames?

I'm working on a web service and need to restrict users from signing up with certain usernames such as admin, root, etc. I know this is a common problem that everyone goes through when developing a new service, so thought there should be a database…
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Revoke account permission for an app

I wrote a code that request an AuthToken from the account manager, using the getAuthToken(). On the first time - the user needs to "Allow" the authentication, but later on there's no need to. I want to know if there's a way to revoke that…
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How do I implement an Account on Android without a SyncAdapter

I am implementing a login system for an Android application utilizing the built-in accounts system (with the AccountManager APIs). All is well and good on Android 2.2+, but on Android 2.1 not including a SyncAdapter causes reboots in the account…
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Too many SQL Server users

We have a VM with a SQL Server running. Today I wanted to add a user to the box and I noticed that there are 20 SQL Server windows users. I have no idea where these came from. The description says Local user account for execution of R scripts in SQL…
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asp.net core mvc password validators

What is the easy way to customize password validation rules in asp.net core MVC? The problem is exactly like someone had here How To Change Password Validation in ASP.Net MVC Identity 2? the only difference is that I'm using asp.net CORE MVC (latest…
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