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Django authentication backend that uses tokens sent over email.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2017-07-02 · latest 2022-11-04

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  1. …type in. Depending on how many tokens you have in flight at once, you can use very few digits. [1] https://github.com/skorokithakis/django-tokenauth
    comment by stavros · 2022-11-04 · in Passage Is Joining 1Password
  2. I wrote a Django library to do this easily: https://github.com/skorokithakis/django-tokenauth It's the easiest login method by far to deploy, though I think users seem to slightly dislike it.
  3. …to be a service? I wrote a Django library to do this, all you need is the ability to send email: https://github.com/skorokithakis/django-tokenauth
  4. I like this method so much, that I wrote a Django library for it: https://github.com/skorokithakis/django-tokenauth For a demo, see https://www.eternum.io/ or https://www.pastery.net/ .
    comment by StavrosK · 2018-10-17 · in Securing your users' authentication
  5. …on and ended up writing a quick Django library that does passwordless authentication over email: https://github.com/skorokithakis/django-tokenauth I would say email is significantly better than a username, as long as the user can change…