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Your email is your identity. If they allow you to change your email, what they should refer you by, your passport number? Was kind of easier in the times of use
by oytis 11mo ago
Your email is your identity. If they allow you to change your email, what they should refer you by, your passport number? Was kind of easier in the times of usernames, but these are long gone
- wizzwizz4 11mo agoThey should use the integer primary key of the users table, of course.
- TZubiri 11mo agoThat's probably an implementation feature that is hidden and not dependable if it exists at all.
- piskov 11mo agoNah, that’s too 1985. Because client doesn’t know it, inserts can be slow in cross-db environment. Guid is always better (can be client generated), and modern guid versions can be ordered chronologically
- oytis 11mo agoPlease enter your integer primary key and password to log in.
- lxgr 11mo agoMost services I know allow changing both.
- esafak 11mo agoYou can use a random numerical ID as PK and let people associate as many authn IDs as they want after logging in with one.
- thiht 11mo agoWhy would you allow this complexity for basically nothing?
- esafak 11mo agoUsing a separate table for authn is a basic pattern for this problem. What would you do?
- Reubachi 11mo agoWho in this scenario outlines the key infrastructure, and how is the private key maintained?
- esafak 11mo agoprimary key. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_key