In this situation (internet & computers) refers to the act of confirming the identity of a person or assuring that a computer program is a trusted one.
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I don't understand Google's 2-way authentication
What is the advantage of Google forcing me to keep me cellphone on, working and with me at all times? It just seems like this will prevent me from using my account some time in the future when I don't ...
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Signing in to Google through very different IP addresses
Because I connect to many different VPNs and make it appear that I'm in very different geographical locations, how do I add a whitelist of IP addresses that are allowed to sign in to my account so I ...
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Does OpenID protocol require a direct connection from Relying Party to Identity Provider? (What if it is blocked?)
I want to know whether OpenID protocol requires a direct connection from Relying Party to Identity Provider, because I'm concerned with a case when such a connection can be blocked.
For example, I'm ...
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1answer
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Is there possibility to allow only certain accounts from specific group in Google Apps sign in using OAuth?
Is there possibility to allow login to app only for certain users from Google Apps. From only one app to be more specific. I want to create admin panel that only some people can manage but I want to ...
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1answer
143 views
How to avoid Google Mail SMTP lock while traveling?
I know there are lots of articles about this problem, but I still can't find a nice way to fix that. My boss is traveling a lot, and because of constant change of place her google account is blocked. ...
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Managing multiple Google Accounts [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Using multiple Google accounts without logging in and out to use
What's the best way to manage multiple Google Accounts? Our college uses Google Mail, I have a personal ...
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0answers
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Why does Chrome throw out my Google Two-Factor Auth “trusted-ness”
I have Google Two-Factor Auth turned on for my account. When I first log into my account, I have to enter a code I receive via SMS. At this point, my computer should be trusted; that is, I should have ...
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1answer
86 views
How can I get the password of an openID associated site?
Login to Stackoverflow.com supports OpenID authentication. Alternatively, we can login using using Google account (among others).
Once we associate any supported account, an openID is associated ...
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Do I have to “Sign In” each time I visit google.com/analytics?
I'm already signed in my Gmail account and saved my password. To view my mailbox the only thing I have to do is to visit Gmail.com.
But the problem is with visiting analytics.google.com. Each time ...
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0answers
33 views
Safe login from App1 to App2 via link [closed]
I have two webapps, App1 in PHP, and App2 in RoR. Each user as an account
The desidered use case is that user login in App1, then can go to App2 without using another set of credentials, but by ...
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1answer
68 views
Logging out from another computer
I left my Facebook page up at work. Can I log out of it from my home computer so no one can mess with my page?
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2answers
213 views
Two factor gmail authentication: How to login from *either* device?
How can I use 2 factor gmail authentication in this situation?
I have a gmail account, a laptop and a phone. I use 2 factor authentication so that when i try to access gmail on the laptop, i verify ...
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1answer
145 views
What access to my Google account am I granting this web app?
I was signing up for a web service, when the following prompt showed up. I'm familiar with this process, and I've granted some more finer-grained access to other apps before, but if I recall ...
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2answers
85 views
Blog readable only by people signed into a certain Google domain?
I am the webmaster for a school that uses Google Apps for Your Domain, so every family has an account at our domain. We would like to create a blog that can only be read by school families. Blogger ...
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5answers
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Gmail rejects SMTP password with 2-factor authentication
I am using the Mail app on Mac OS X to access my Gmail account using 2-factor authentication. The app is configured with an application-specific password and it works fine for a few days: email can be ...
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1answer
107 views
Is there two-factor authentication for hosted wordpress.com blogs?
There is a plugin that supports two-factor authentication via Google's Authenticator for self-hosted Wordpress blogs. Is there a similar feature I can turn on for hosted wordpress.com blogs? Every ...
2
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0answers
818 views
Cannot login into amazon.com
I have bought a laptop on amazon a couple days ago. I would like to login to check my order. But I cannot login into amazon.com or amazon.fr
What I have tried:
Tried to change password (click ...
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1answer
497 views
Limit Google “trusted computer” auth cookies to 30 days
It looks like Google's two-factor authentication has switched to using long-expiration cookies for remembering "trusted" user agents, instead of the 30 day expiration previously used. This seems ...
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1answer
412 views
Which popular/high-profile web applications support two-factor authentication? [closed]
I'm aware that both Google and Facebook offer two-factor authentication, by sending an SMS to your phone under certain circumstances.
What other popular or high-profile web applications support ...
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0answers
31 views
Correct cookie management [closed]
I am trying to find a reliable source for cookie management. I read though OWASP so i roughly know what can be dangerous.
But I need to authenticate my users with cookies. Is there a complete step by ...
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0answers
583 views
Google Apps GMAIL — send email problem (550 550 Authentication is required for relay (state 12).)
I have a Google Apps Gmail as subject,
I success sent email to smartermail email account by using gmail, yahoo, hotmail, facebook, foxmail (qq)... and smartermail email account the email...
Only ...
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0answers
244 views
Two bitbucket (or Github) accounts with same SSH key
Bitbucket's help says:
if your account's username is happy_cat, you would need to create a new account with a username of happycat to use this feature
That's my case, so I created a second ...
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1answer
533 views
Erase Google two-factor authentication token
I logged in to GMail with two-factor authentication and mistakenly left the "Remember this computer for 30 days" option checked.
I'd like to erase the authentication token, so on the next log in ...
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1answer
1k views
Does Hotmail offer two-factor authentication?
I've read multiple news articles that claim Hotmail offers two-factor authentication. One of the articles describes Hotmail's system, saying
...whenever you go to Hotmail...you can choose to get a ...
2
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1answer
88 views
Google authentication and authorization among their apps [closed]
Google has a bunch of apps like Google+, Gmail, Docs, Reader, etc. Internally, these apps must talk to each other securely to query information/data. I am wondering conceptually how Google implements ...
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3answers
523 views
Direct link to Google Voice (or other Google applications) to log in as a specific user
I use multiple Google accounts for email, documents, and Voice. If I go to Google Voice, it will recognize whatever my most recent session is and use that. This is almost always my work session, so I ...
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2answers
356 views
Google restrict services to application-specific passwords
Is there no way to restrict services for Google's application-specific passwords? Those passwords have almost full access to your account. It seems like design flaw. Eg. if I generate generate a ...
3
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2answers
1k views
Gmail two-factor authentication without a cell phone?
I love the idea of protecting my Gmail account using two-factor authentication, but I don't own a cell phone. And I don't want to tie Gmail to a land line since the whole point of having the account ...
2
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1answer
8k views
How to sign up to VEVO without using Facebook
When using VEVO it seems impossible to register without using Facebook. No other options are given (even with Incognito)
Is there a path to a regular form registration? I just want to save a ...
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1answer
135 views
How can we access a Facebook account if it was setup by a 3rd party?
A client of ours had their Facebook business page set up by someone who has disappeared. How can our client get access to her business page to make changes?
The business page is here: ...
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4answers
1k views
Is there a difference between a formal logout and shutting down the browser?
Sometimes I log out of a web page or app by clicking on a specific "logout" link. Other times I may be in a rush so I just close the browser. Is there a benefit to formally logging out? Is shutting ...
1
vote
2answers
428 views
Google's 2-step verification - how to use application-specific password multiple times?
When I generate an application-specific password to be used on google talk, Google states:
No need to memorize this password. You should need to enter it only
once. Spaces don't matter.
But ...
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2answers
526 views
Implications of using Google to login to third-party websites
Nowadays a lot of websites (for instance CNET.COM and some forums) offer to login using your Google (Facebook, Yahoo etc) account instead of creating account on the website.
Can anyone explain what ...
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1answer
465 views
Any public LDAP server where I can create new user? [closed]
I need for my testing to check that loggin into my application correctly works with more than one LDAP servers. I have only one LDAP server ready to use though.
I need
LDAP server details and
...
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2answers
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After revoking 2-step Gmail verification can't access account on apps, only at gmail.com
I tried the 2-step verification for Gmail a few days ago and created app-specific passwords for my mail clients (Apple Mail, Sparrow, iPhone, iPad) and they all worked out fine.
Last night, I tried ...
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1answer
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Unauthenticated access to Google Docs and Calendar
Today, I tried a demo of Openbravo (web-based ERP) and on its main workspace there were two widgets Google Docs and Google Calendar and they both displayed my Docs and Calendar data from my Google ...
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3answers
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Linking Google accounts after registration in Trello
Originally, I registered using my email address (@gmail). Now I would like to link that account to my Google authentication credentials. Is this possible? Or do I need to create a new Trello account ...
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1answer
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Flickr available only through phone. Can't reset pasword
I can access the account from my phone, but I'm not able to save any pictures. I can't access my account from the web because I created it using Google. Then when I didn't know how to get my pictures ...
2
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0answers
485 views
How Yahoo Mail login page could store cookie on some different path on user's system?
Some time ago in Yahoo Mail's login page, there was an option to keep signature as text or image on user's system. So even after user logged out and come back again, can see the signature on the same ...
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2answers
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I have evidence that someone is accessing my Google account, what should I do?
I have evidence that someone has been accessing my Google account since I started to login to use a variety of services. I did not have this problem when I was using my Google account exclusively for ...
3
votes
2answers
1k views
Web-based RSS reader supporting RSS authentication
I can't seem to find a web-based RSS reader that supports RSS authentication so that I can read my Basecamp updates. I don't want a downloadable desktop app. I also want native support for RSS ...
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1answer
6k views
How does Google's new two-factor authentication work with IMAP, POP, etc.?
I'm very excited about Google's new two-factor authentication. Two-factor authentication means, in this case, that instead of just authenticating based on "something you know" (your password) you also ...
5
votes
1answer
504 views
Does Google Authenticator work with personal accounts?
Is it possible to set up Google Authenticator for my personal accounts or is it only available for Google Apps accounts?
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1answer
100 views
security and google id
There are lots of apps (on my phone, on the web, etc.) that want to use my google id for authentication and to sync data -- news readers, contact info, notes to google docs, etc. In general, they ask ...
2
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1answer
503 views
Facebook Events — can you integrate?
Could someone please tell me if it is posssible to integrate with Facebook events? Ie, pass some parameters to create an event from an external site and forward invites to via facebook (and via your ...
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5answers
324 views
Will having a Facebook account soon become a necessity for use of unrelated web apps?
I'm noticing an increasing trend of sites that offer Facebook authentication. However, I don't really want an account myself.
Would my disdain of the service proper ever be overruled by use of it's ...
3
votes
1answer
2k views
Accessing a password-protected iCalendar feed from Google Calendar
I want Google Calendar to show the events from a remote ics feed protected by HTTP Basic Authentication.
The URL is like:
http://user:password@host/path/eventList?site=calsite&format=calendar
...
5
votes
2answers
557 views
When did Facebook start using the OAuth protocol?
When I last used Facebook authentication, it provided it's 'Facebook Connect' protocol which wasn't necessarily implementing the open source OAuth protocol but now they say that they are using OAuth ...
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2answers
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If my Gmail address is abcdefgh@gmail.com, then what would be my OpenID?
If my email is abcdefgh@gmail.com, what would be my OpenID?
