From the course: Web Security: User Authentication and Access Control
Join today to access over 24,700 courses taught by industry experts.
Credentials
From the course: Web Security: User Authentication and Access Control
Credentials
- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll examine credentials which are the most common form of online user authentication. Credentials typically means username and password. The term is actually broader, but on the internet, they're used almost synonymously. Forms asking for a username and password are easy for developers to implement and users are already familiar with the concept. Every username on your website should be unique. After all, we're trying to authenticate a particular person. We don't want to have two users named John Doe. We need to have John Doe 1 and John Doe 2, so that we can tell 'em apart and control their access separately. The usernames can be different from other websites but they don't have to be. In most cases, someone's email address is a suitable username. An email address is already unique and most users can remember it easily. In fact, we'll see later how an email address is frequently used as a…
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.