authentication

Best practices for Storyboard login screen, handling clearing of data upon logout

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In your appDelegate.m inside your didFinishLaunchingWithOptions //authenticatedUser: check from NSUserDefaults User credential if its present then set your navigation flow accordingly if (authenticatedUser) { self.window.rootViewController = [[UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@”Main” bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]] instantiateInitialViewController]; } else { UIViewController* rootController = [[UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@”Main” bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]] instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@”LoginViewController”]; UINavigationController* navigation = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:rootController]; self.window.rootViewController = navigation; } In SignUpViewController.m file … Read more

How to change users in TortoiseSVN

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Open Windows Explorer. Right-click anywhere in the window. Click TortoiseSVN → Settings. Click Saved Data. Click Clear beside Authentication Data (see below). Check the authentication items to clear. Click OK. All saved Authentication Data for all projects is deleted. You will have to re-enter credentials to reconnect.

How to connect to MySQL from the command line

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See here http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connecting.html mysql -u USERNAME -pPASSWORD -h HOSTNAMEORIP DATABASENAME The options above means: -u: username -p: password (**no space between -p and the password text**) -h: host last one is name of the database that you wanted to connect. Look into the link, it’s detailed there! As already mentioned by Rick, you can avoid … Read more

How to check if a user is logged in (how to properly use user.is_authenticated)?

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Update for Django 1.10+ is_authenticated is now an attribute in Django 1.10. if request.user.is_authenticated: # do something if the user is authenticated NB: The method was removed in Django 2.0. For Django 1.9 and older is_authenticated is a function. You should call it like if request.user.is_authenticated(): # do something if the user is authenticated As … Read more

Why is there an “Authorization Code” flow in OAuth2 when “Implicit” flow works so well?

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tl;dr: This is all because of security reasons. OAuth 2.0 wanted to meet these two criteria: You want to allow developers to use non-HTTPS redirect URI because not all developers have an SSL enabled server and if they do it’s not always properly configured (non-self signed, trusted SSL certificates, synchronised server clock…). You don’t want … Read more

How do I remove documents using Node.js Mongoose?

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If you don’t feel like iterating, try FBFriendModel.find({ id:333 }).remove( callback ); or FBFriendModel.find({ id:333 }).remove().exec(); mongoose.model.find returns a Query, which has a remove function. Update for Mongoose v5.5.3 – remove() is now deprecated. Use deleteOne(), deleteMany() or findOneAndDelete() instead.

SPA best practices for authentication and session management

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This question has been addressed, in a slightly different form, at length, here: RESTful Authentication But this addresses it from the server-side. Let’s look at this from the client-side. Before we do that, though, there’s an important prelude: Javascript Crypto is Hopeless Matasano’s article on this is famous, but the lessons contained therein are pretty … Read more

How should I choose an authentication library for CodeIgniter? [closed]

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Update (May 14, 2010): It turns out, the russian developer Ilya Konyukhov picked up the gauntlet after reading this and created a new auth library for CI based on DX Auth, following the recommendations and requirements below. And the resulting Tank Auth is looking like the answer to the OP’s question. I’m going to go … Read more