Logging users out of a Django site after N minutes of inactivity

Take a look at the session middleware and its settings. Specifically these two: SESSION_COOKIE_AGE Default: 1209600 (2 weeks, in seconds) The age of session cookies, in seconds. SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST Default: False Whether to save the session data on every request. If this is False (default), then the session data will only be saved if it has … Read more

GitHub API: using ‘repo’ scope, but still can’t see private repos

From testing: GETing /users/someusername/repos doesn’t show private repos (even if it’s the user whose oauth access token you’re using). GETing /user/repos show private repos. This isn’t documented in the GitHub API docs at present, I just found out via testing. Thanks to @ivanzuzak for suggesting to look at the endpoint.

Node.js can’t authenticate to MySQL 8.0

MySQL 8.0 uses a new default authentication plugin – caching_sha2_password – whereas MySQL 5.7 used a different one – mysql_native_password. Currently, the community Node.js drivers for MySQL don’t support compatible client-side authentication mechanisms for the new server plugin. A possible workaround is to alter the type of user account to use the old authentication plugin: … Read more

Login disallowed for security reasons postgresql centos server

1). Open -> /etc/phppgadmin -> config.inc.php 2). change $conf[‘extra_login_security’] = true; to $conf[‘extra_login_security’] = false; // If extra login security is true, then logins via phpPgAdmin with no // password or certain usernames (pgsql, postgres, root, administrator) // will be denied. Only set this false once you have read the FAQ and // understand how … Read more

NodeJS + Express: How to secure a URL

Yep, middleware is exactly what you want. A middleware function is just a function that works just like any other Express route handler, expept it gets run before your actual route handler. You could, for example, do something like this: function requireLogin(req, res, next) { if (req.session.loggedIn) { next(); // allow the next route to … Read more

AngularJS clientside routing and token authentication with webapi

Whether to use cookie authentication or (bearer) tokens still depends on the type of app you have. And as far as I know there aren’t any best practice yet. But since you are working on a SPA, and are already using a JWT library, I would favor the token based approach. Unfortunately, I cannot help … Read more