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What would be nice would be if all sites supported this system: 1) go to site 2) enter email address (cached by the browser) 3) go to email account 4) click on
by dave2000 10y ago
What would be nice would be if all sites supported this system:
1) go to site
2) enter email address (cached by the browser)
3) go to email account
4) click on long, unguessable link which is only valid for 2 minutes)
er..that's it.
You could even skip the `enter email address` step and just get users to keep a link provided in the initial signup process. This link could either be the one you always use to log in, or for better security could prompt the remote site into sending you another single-use login link (as above).
- jakub_g 10y agoWell most sites do support the feature. It's called password reset and I use it heavily in fact. I use keepass, but sometimes for services that I use once per year, I just go via password reset and change password to a long random gibberish and do not even bother to write it down to keepass.
- dave2000 10y agoNo, it's nothing like password reset. My proposed system doesn't even need a password.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoThis is how Craigslist posts work. You can create a password if you want but you by no means need one. You don't even have to "create an account."