I know of the Windows.System.UserProfile.UserInformation class to retrieve first and last names. Is there an API to retrieve a persistent ID of the currently logged-in user? I want to roam certain user settings, but I'd hate for users to login to my app after they've already logged into their OS.
All I need is an ID that is unique to the Windows Live account of the user.
This really depends on what you want to do. If you don't want the user score to roam then why not on first load add a guid to identify the user/device combo and return that to the server?
This would also mean you weren't storing personally identifiable information on the server which a user might not expect.
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How to identify an user with specific information like unique id or reference number in ejabberd API for chat?
I want to chat with someone then user has some information except name which is unique for that specific user. so we can identify the user in chat based on that?
on register user while calling /api/register API, there is no any unique response which is useful to make chat with another user
Even, /api/registered_users given only name of all the registered users, not any unique information
So, what is the solution?
any other APIs is there for the same or what?
A user (that may be a person, or a machine, or an animal) can register an account in ejabberd (or any other server). That account is identified by the account username and host, for example tom#example.com.
The user uses an account, and the account is identified by the account username and host.
There is nothing else. What else could there be?
I created a ReactJS web app with a “user profile” page where the logged user can save: name, surname, email and address. For the moment, every time I log-in and save the data a new object is created.
I would like each logged user to be linked to a single ID, namely Auth0 one, so that I can always retrieve and update the row of the right user in my MySQL database.
I tried to look for other similar questions and to see the documentation, but it's my first time with authentication and I haven't found anything specific about Auth0,so I apologize if it’s a trivial question or asked several times .
I'm trying to get the Google Client Id (found under https://plus.google.com/me) of a user corresponding to the account he's currently connected with.
Explanation: when connecting with your gmail account on Chrome, the result of the code given here (https://developers.google.com/+/web/people/) gives the user's client ID that I need to use the Google Payment API.
The problem is if the user has multiple accounts connected on Chrome.
Example: Our user has an email account for work (WEmail) and a personal email account (PEmail). He first connects to chrome using his WEmail. Then adds his PEmail to the list of Chrome connected accounts. Then our user wishes to make a payment on an extension he has installed, with his PEmail.
The issue here is that to process such a payment you need the google client ID of that user, and when you fetch it, you will get the one of the first connected account (WEmail) and not the one of the current used account (PEmail). Which makes it impossible to process the payment since you might not be serving the right account.
Is there any way to get all the currently used ids of a user or jsut the currently used id?
If not, are there plans to integrate such a solution in the short term?
Thanks for your help.
I have three websites: a.example.com, b.example.com, and c.net. Each was built a couple years after the other and all have their own users table.
I want to integrate these sites together so that I can login with a single username/password combo and have access to all three sites just by clicking links without having to login again.
I've never done an integration like this before, so looking at two angles:
1) Create another website, 'd.net' where new accounts can be created. If you login to one of the original three sites, it asks you for your d.net account. If you dont have one it asks you to make one. In your 'account settings' on d.net, you can 'add sites' to your account by entering your old username and password for them. Sound reasonable?
2) Solving the technical problem of being able to one-click login to another of the three sites if i'm already logged into d.net. Afaik, cookies with a session ID can't be shared across domains. So... maybe generate a token and save it to the database. Send token over GET to another website, which can check the token, log the user in, and then delete the token. Sound about right?
Have you looked at OpenID?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID
Don't have to re-invent the wheel.
I am trying to findout the user's first time login using asp.net membership (mysql) and depending on that I'm displaying some agreements page.
The procedure I follow is:
When a user registers a mail will be sent which is for confirming the email Id.
until this point the user is not authenticated.
After clicking the link provided in email Id, the user's authentication is done by user id present in query string.
Now the user needs to login by credentials. At this point user gets authenticated and I want to show him a legal agreements page with a check box in it.
Solution I tried:
I supposed the last login time will be 0/0/0000 00:00:00 AM but in vain.
It would be great if anyone could suggest me a solution for this.
I also encountered the same problem. the only solution that struck my mind was to check whether LastLoginDate = CreateDate or not. If this criteria is true it means that the user is trying to log in for the first time.
But be careful that you must check it before log-in procedure. (but I should say the I use Ms Sql)
You can also check the number of users haven't logged-in yet.
select LastLoginDate from aspnet_Membership where LastLoginDate = CreateDate order by LastLoginDate ASC