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I've been hacking away at a hobby project in my spare time that implements this method. You can password protect the page, if you want, but by default the uniq
by wcchandler 12y ago
I've been hacking away at a hobby project in my spare time that implements this method. You can password protect the page, if you want, but by default the unique ID is publicly accessible. The easiest way to password protect it? Use your email address as the "password." It's also easy to create forks/snapshots using this method. If somebody makes a change that they don't like, or wish to test something themselves and not have their "default" page get crowded then they can share/revert to their one "master" ID, and use their other ID until it's ready. My use case is fairly specific (simple server monitoring tool), but sometimes there are better ways of doing things than the default go-to solution.
- xerophtye 12y ago>The easiest way to password protect it? Use your email address as the "password." yeah that would be cool. You open YOUR page and it asks for your email id. So you need to know the username (assuming that's what u make url from) and the email id. Simle two factor auth without annoying sign ups
- oneeyedpigeon 12y agoI'm not sure I'd call that two factor authentication. Sure, there are two unknown elements - effectively, username and password - but I'm pretty sure the intent of two-factor authentication goes a bit further than that.
- Xurinos 12y agoThis is not two-factor authentication. It is important to know what it means. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication factors are: * Something only the user knows (e.g., password, PIN, pattern); * Something only the user has (e.g., ATM card, smart card, mobile phone); and * Something only the user is (e.g., biometric characteristic, such as a fingerprint). Your example was two things that someone knows -- one factor.