Login and password - Encrypted URL

[otavionestares]

Hello Everyone!

Is there a way to create an URL with encrypted login and password, so the user doesn’t need to type these infos, skipping login page? How about security? Is this safe?

Thanks mates!

[sid]

Hi.
We do this for specific task. So a URL with one-time token is generated, giving the user access to a particular page which they can access with the URL just once. They can’t even refresh.
Based on token, data displayed is relevant to their account in the system.
Haven’t found any security issues with that.

But, if you are talking about logging the user in, that should also work out fine as long as the token is single-use & should be safe enough too if the token has like a 2-3 min auto-expiry time.

[jellederijke]

Hi @otavionestares,

Is this what you need?

Guide for end users to request a One Time Password (single factor authentication)

Hi there fellow Wapplers, I’d like to share with you a little guide on how to create a One Time Password authentication method with just single factor authentication. This is intended for projects where users do not login that often and have difficulties remembering credentials (and do not seem to use password managers). A side note is that I would not recommend this as an authentication method if there is sensitive data exposed to the front end users. So how does it work? User goes to a pa…

[otavionestares]

not exactly, but very good guide! Thanks @jellederijke!!