I have my own Users page in my application where user Admin can create a new user.
I do not want to let the user sign up by himself, but have the admin of the system add this user.
What do you think the flow for that should be ?
I thought about:
create a new user with username and temp password in the users page.
The user gets an email and presses a link to confirm the email.
The user goes to the login screen of my application and inserts the username and temp password.
the login page changes to Change password so the user will insert the password and confirm the password for him.
when pressing login the user logins to the system.
I cannot find a best practice for adding a new user from a built-in users page in the app.
Do you think my flow is reasonable?
Do you have any code that I can use for that?
This is pretty close to the flow which Cognito has for admin-created users by default when using the Amplify UI Authenticator component. The only difference is that the temporary password is sent to the user via email, so the admin never needs to see it.
To achieve this, you need to use the AdminCreateUser action. The way you do this will vary depending on the library you're using to communicate with Cognito. If it's Python, you can use boto3. If it's JS, you can use the AWS JS SDK. (Sample code in this GitHub comment.)
It's not required to use Amplify UI, you could write all the pages yourself. But it works well with very little effort and looks quite professional. So it should be the first thing you try. Here's another answer providing sample code for React.
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Newbie to Parse Server here.
I have an app which reads data from Parse Server and displays it to users without logging them in.
I want to create another 'Admin' app which will allow ONLY ONE pre-populated admin user to login and change the data. Is this possible via Facebook login? I would prefer Facebook login because with normal (user, password) login I can't implement 2FA easily on Parse Server. Facebook login would take care of the issue since the user is already logged into Facebook using 2FA.
Is this possible? Any suggestions / pointers would be appreciated. I am coding both apps in React Native. The first app is complete.
The type of login has nothing to do with the abilities a user has. The simplest solution for your desired setup is using class-level permissions:
create a new Role object and name it accordingly, e.g. admin
add your admin user to that role
set class-level permissions for your data classes: grant public read access, limit write access to the admin role
Now every user can see all the data, but only members of the admin role are able to manipulate them. If you want you can add more users to the role to also give them write access.
BTW: all these steps can be performed in Parse Dashboard, no coding required.
EDIT
Actually you can have it even simpler, the class-level permissions can also be granted to a single user -- so no need for a role, if you really only need one admin.
I am trying to create an app with SQL database connection. Like other apps, user should have the option of both custom register(email,password) and facebook login.
If user choose custom login thats fine, but if user choose facebook login my app would be able to retrieve email from facebook yet no password.
In most apps if you choose facebook login, after login with facebook you never deal with register and logging again (Single sign on, and access token).
But How other apps let user register without choosing a password? Do they let password field null in database (that doesnt seem feasible)? Or do they create a random password for user and save it to users device? What if user logs out or delete their facebook account and wants to login to my app, how would they login without password since in first place they have chosen facebook login?
I know multiple question but they are all related and I am having a difficult time understanding that simple task.
Thanks
M. Fustang
In general if you allow people to register using Facebook, you can force them to set their username and password for this website on first time they log in. And simply store user's id from Facebook as a column in users' table together with username and password provided by user. And then allow them to login using this user/pass data for your website or using Facebook. This will allow your users to log in even after Facebook's account removal.
Hi StackOverflow Community!
I am working at BOX API . Everything is fine,but I want to change the Authentication behavior.
Authentication process first go to box website for ACCOUNT HOLDER Authentication. Is it possible to auto Authenticate using username/password and users view ACCOUNT HOLDER files directly?
I am looking forward.
Similar question asked here with a solution involving renewing bearer and access tokens. Only restriction is that the renewal needs to occur at least once every 14 days. I hope this is a workable solution for you.
It looks like this isn't possible. The Box API uses OAuth 2.0 authentication, which explicitly requires you to redirect the user to the Box website so that they can "allow" access to their account. See http://developers.box.com/oauth/
Which SDK are you using iOS, Windows, Ruby, other? It is possible to auto-login basically it would involve having the user configure their username and password somewhere. Then if you take those stored values and using javascript calls you can input the username and password into the appropriate fields and then submit the form. Depending on the api you'll be presented with a different login screen.
Disclaimer Box changes their login screen frequently and seems really buggy so I wouldn't recommend this route but if you want to do it any way the javascript will look something like:
var username = "user1";
var password = "superSecretPassword";
document.getElementById('login').value = 'username';
document.getElementById('password').value = 'password';
document.forms[0].submit();
I am well aware of the security implications of this, so much so that I'm betting it doesn't exist, so before you call me crazy, that's why I'm asking.
I got really tired of having only my phone on me and installing a new app/whatever and finding myself needing to suddenly create a new application-specific password on the fly, and having to navigate Google's decidedly non-mobile-friendly security page to do that. I want to create an app of some kind that allows me to generate an application-specific password, whether by text or an Android app itself or something else. As I see it, there are two options here:
Use some Google Account Security API (if it exists) to create the application-specific password
Do scraping-type behavior (with proper credentials, of course) to automate its creation. I really don't want to do this.
Does anyone know (a) if this type of API exists, or (b) if there are any other ways to go about doing this? This app would be published on Github for self-hosting, obviously.
There is no official API to generate application-specific passwords.
I've solved this myself by doing a couple of things:
1) printing out the QR Code for the account that can be scanned by the Authenticator app in order to generate codes. I keep it secured in my desk. This allows me to reformat my phone without needing to turn two-step off each time.
2) use the browser sign-in for my Android device. When adding a Google account to an Android phone, just before the screen where you enter your username and password, click the menu button (or 3 dots on the screen if you have no menu button) and choose Browser sign-in. This allows you to login to an Android device with your username, real password and verification code rather than an application specific password.
This saves me from needing to generate application-specific passwords 95% of the time.
Jay
I'm a person with a non-programming background working on a web application that must store user-generated content and always associate that content with the user who created it. I just had the developer tell me since the application must do this, using Facebook as an alternate login method is pointless because Facebook only let's a third-party web application hang on to Facebook profile information for a certain amount of time, and therefore users who login via Facebook cannot actually contribute content that would remain in the web application's databases.
I'm having trouble swallowing this. I just signed up and logged in to stackoverflow using my Facebook account, and it appears to have generated a site-specific user ID that was automatically associated with my Facebook account - thereby allowing me to save/store content on the site without having to actually create a site-specific profile.
My questions:
Where is the misunderstanding here? To what extent do alternative login options affect the ability of my application, which will consist largely of user-generated content, to store user-generated data and consistently associate it with that user? Appreciate the help!
Alternative login allows users to use an existing account to sign in to multiple websites, without needing to create new passwords. Alternate login using facebook, OpenID, gmail or any other provider doesn't affect the ability of your application to store user generated content.
When a user logs in using a login option for e.g. facebook, user enters the facebook login credential(if he isn't already logged in), facebook generates a authenticated token which is utilised by your application for future use.
In case of alternative logins only the login information (User ID/Password) isn't stored in your application, it totally depends on how you are implementing it in your application. But in any case it doesn't affect your application in saving storing and using the user generated content in your website.
Please refer to this link for more info -
http://openid.net/get-an-openid/what-is-openid/
http://oauth.net/
Hope this helps!